More jobs to go in Deakin purge

By John Van Klaveren
ANOTHER three Deakin staff have been notified of “forced redundancy”, according to a union.
National Tertiary Education Union Deakin branch president Dr Steve Mackey said more redundancies were foreshadowed.
The Independent reported in July that nine staff from Deakin’s Geelong campuses and seven from Burwood were made redundant, with up to 24 jobs expected to be cut.
The cuts were announced as Deakin revealed its move to cloud learning, “a revolutionary digital and educationally engaged future for students and staff”.
“We are confronting five or six possible redundancies in the Business and Law Faculty,” Dr Mackey said.
“But the campuses involved are not clear and no final decision has been made.”
Dr Mackey said the three notified redundancies involved staff working in the knowledge media and Institute of Teaching and Learning areas.
“These are areas helping staff to teach with technology. The management has yet to explain the logic of this to us.”