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Gains for academic and general staff in the ANU School of Music.

Posted 6 September 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

After strenuous negotiations over the last week, NTEU advocates have won the following changes to ANU's proposals for the future of School of Music staff. 

The following changes dramatically increase the ability of academic staff to be directly transferred to new positions:

  • A doctorate will no longer be required for academic staff.
  • ANU will also abandon a related criterion seeking adherence to a specific educational orthodoxy (which would have been unprecedented at ANU). 
  • Extensive discipline experience will be recognised as equivalent to high-level formal qualifications. 
We have also forced the ANU to review the job design of the proposed general staff positions to ensure that the full range of administrative tasks can be completed without creating excessive workloads for general, technical or academic staff in the future School. They will report on this review to the NTEU and we will then determine, in consultation with general staff, whether the proposed general staff structure is feasible and whether it breaches the Enterprise Agreement provisions on excessive workloads. 

These improvements won by the NTEU have received coverage this week in the Canberra Times and on the ABC:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/anu-staff-celebrate-backflip-on-phd-edict-20120904-25czp.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-05/anu-backflips-on-school-of-music-staff-phds/4243572

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