No. The central role of an enterprise bargain agreement is to negotiate the employment conditions of employees. The idea is, however, that by improving the employment conditions of employees, the education of students will be improved: lecturers will be in a less precarious position, and be able to do a better job, and there will be greater support from student services etc. At the moment a lot of the teaching is done by people in precarious positions who aren’t paid as much as they should be, and administrators of services for students are severely understaffed. So a concern for improving the education of students is very much behind what’s being sought - it’s just that it’s not the main function of the EBA. From a personal perspective, I think the education of students is central to our mission as academics - I did do a post on that earleir.
Interesting that the list of demands includes nothing directed towards improving the education of students.
No. The central role of an enterprise bargain agreement is to negotiate the employment conditions of employees. The idea is, however, that by improving the employment conditions of employees, the education of students will be improved: lecturers will be in a less precarious position, and be able to do a better job, and there will be greater support from student services etc. At the moment a lot of the teaching is done by people in precarious positions who aren’t paid as much as they should be, and administrators of services for students are severely understaffed. So a concern for improving the education of students is very much behind what’s being sought - it’s just that it’s not the main function of the EBA. From a personal perspective, I think the education of students is central to our mission as academics - I did do a post on that earleir.