La Trobe holds the line on teacher educ restructure

Education academics at La Trobe U continue to campaign against management’s plan to spill anything up to 40 of 54 jobs in the school of education and restructure its teaching at regional campuses. Management says government requirements and declining enrolments “threaten the sustainability” of the school.

Academics respond that staff will lose jobs and students will be worse off and say they have proposed a better plan, “our approach would ensure that the quality of education delivered by the university did not decrease from our current high standards, or introduce a period of destabilisation of the school as staff are ousted.  In addition, many of our ideas would either save money or generate additional income, says SoE academic, and union official Cathleen Farrelly. But she adds management is not interested.

To which L T U responds, ““we are proposing changes to the way we offer our teacher education qualifications and are currently consulting directly with our staff to gain their feedback on our proposal.”


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