More than one in 10 research positions at Australian universities are predicted to disappear by 2024 as revenue from overseas students dries up, and prestigious Group of Eight institutions are tipped to lose the most resources.
"While all Australian universities will be impacted, 13 universities are identified as the most vulnerable regarding their future capacity to support research at current levels," the paper, released on Monday, states. "This is due to the size of their research effort and international student programs.
"Universities spend about 60 per cent of the funds that they commit to research on postgraduate scholarships and on salaries, so, clearly, if you have a significant shortfall, you will inevitably have to lose jobs," he said."The other thing is, it slows down discovery and new knowledge and industry, of course, feeds on that.
Deakin and UTS each committed 134 per cent of the discretionary income they received that year to support research, while Macquarie committed 120 per cent.
Because of ScottMorrisonMP don't you mean. No job keeper for people who don't work for Crown Casino... LNPfail
Your headline not quite accurate. The pandemic and the deliberate set the Morrison govt has against academia and research which saw it refuse to give university JobKeeper, well, except for a few 'private' ones inc the Australian campuses of a US uni.
The headline is misleading. It should be: One in 10 research jobs tipped to vanish because the federal government refuses to fund universities like other sectors of the economy.
Your headline is bullshit. Pandemic did not exclude Universities from JobKeeper.
adamlcarey as 'Education Editor' one would think you'd have done research. NO. IT IS the feral regime slashing funding, refusing JobKeeper, raising fees for courses 'they' consider unimportant but most of them graduated in/from, if they even attended uni.
Because OF FEDERAL WHIM not the pandemic!!! The Feds refuse to give them support!!!
Good. You got woke you go broke.
Stop lying. One in 10 university research jobs tipped to vanish because government refuses to fund them. Also breaking, Sydney Morning Herald is now Nine Ltd. speaking trumpet. AusPol
Correction: the jobs are not 'vanishing', and the job losses are due to deliberate government action on funding. Not 'pandemic'.
'Frydenburg's repeated changes to JobKeeper to specifically exclude public universities expected to end thousands of jobs' is a far more accurate headline.
Then why are high school students encouraged to study STEM subjects? To become qualified and proficient in science, technology, engineering & maths university study is reqd. All needed to help solve current (pandemic anyone?), and future problems. Arts and history etc vital too.
Because Scott Morrison deliberately excluded them from jobkeeper. Meanwhile the Kings School, one of Australia's richest, got to access jobkeeper. Disgusting. auspol vandalism
why research is funded by fees? why research is not funded by industry? answer is indictment: uni research is geared for publications and citations, latter used to bolster uni rankings, which implies more students, fees. Vicious cycle having nothing to do with actual research.
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Research should be exploding because of the pandemic. We need more information and analysis not more dodgy deals for fossil fuel mates.
Because the true enemy of the Liberal/National agenda is critical thinking.
time universities returned to teaching and research...turning them into a business has near destroyed them
No, One in 10 university research jobs tipped to vanish because of Scott Morrison.
paintsandsings Meanwhile in an alternative universe... the rich are about to get another bloody tax cut
JaneCaro The dumb country. Instead the LNP want to give tax cuts to the top 50%
That is tragic for all the researchers, their departments and the Universities. Losing 10% of researchers during a pandemic and recession is so short sighted.
Does that mean we shall see a 10% reduction in the number of feminist research studies telling us how hard done by females are?
That doesn’t seem like many.