The Australian: Arts faculty face job cuts
MELBOURNE University is threatening compulsory redundancies at its besieged arts faculty as dean Mark Considine seeks up to 20 academic job cuts to head off a faculty deficit forecast for 2010.
Academics teaching subjects with less than 40 students and who have low research output are expected to be targeted.
According to union representative Ted Clark, staff already sounded out about a voluntary exit package, will now be under intense pressure given that a $7,000 incentive payment is now on the table, staff.
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