Posts tagged with equity
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Research KPIs disadvantage staff in FSTE
The Faculty of Science Technology and Engineering 'Research KPI' scheme places unrealistic research expectations on academics with disturbing implications for their workloads, promotion prospects, ...
Discussion Paper
(239 KB) - PDFThe Research Rating System in FSTE - Another pseudoscientific use of the impact factor (La Trobe)
Published: 02 Dec, 2011
Tags: ERA, wms, workload management system, la trobe, LTU, FSTE Research KPIs,
Citation data collected for over 40,000 articles in the Information systems and Statistics disciplines demonstrate that the FSTE Research KPI scheme disadvantages academics in relation to workloads, promotion, reputation and academic freedom.
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(105 KB) - PDFFSTE initial response on Research KPIs
Published: 02 Dec, 2011
Tags: LTU, la trobe, research, wms, equity, FSTE Research KPIs,
This is a Faculty response to the NTEU discussion paper, "The Research Rating System in FSTE - Another pseudoscientific use of the impact factor (La Trobe)".
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Room at the Top: Women’s Progress or Glass Ceiling?
This article is provided as extra content for volume 19 of Agenda (formerly Frontline), NTEU's women's journal.
A version of this paper was presented at the TEM Conference, Melbourne, 3 – 6 October 2010.
By Ian R Dobson, Editor, Australian Universities' Review
This paper examines the number and proportion of women occupying senior administrative positions in Australian universities, and examines the changes that have occurred over the past fifteen years. Higher education administration has had a female majority for many years, and the female proportion of these positions increased from nearly 57 per cent to over 63 per cent between 1994 and 2009. Women now occupy 45.0 per cent of senior posts, compared with 25.2 per cent in 1994. Some universities have more senior women than others, with some having relatively few women at the top. If current growth trends continue, there might be equal numbers of women and men in the upper echelons of university administration by
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Gender Equity Seminar
Gender Equity Seminar'Where are the Women?: Early findings from the NTEU/Unisuper/Universities Australia Gender Equity Study'Researchers from Griffith University's Department of Employment ... -
Equal Pay Day Barbecue
Many ANU Branch members came to a barbecue today to mark Equal Pay Day, which is the date in the year that the average woman must work until, in order to earn the same amount the average man earned ...
WAC delegates Hayley Stevenson, Fran Blackbourn and Sara Beavis barbecuing.
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NTEU part of ARC Linkage grant researching gender equity in universities
NTEU is one of three industry partners on an ARC linkage grant awarded to a research team from Griffith University and University of Queensland. The project, which will be led by Professor Glenda ...
