vol. 64, no. 2, 2022 Published by NTEU
ISSN 0818–8068
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Vale Lynn Meek
Occupational health and safety (OHS) and integrated management: A desktop-based review across higher education OHS, business and general management courses in Australia
Leo Goedegebuure
Nektarios Karanikas & Lilyan Tyson
V L Meek
This paper is a review of OHS and business and management programs in Australia and considers ways the career of future OHS professionals could be enhanced.
Letter from the editor Ian Dobson
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Arthur O’Neill
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Restructures, redundancies and workforce downsizing: Implications for Australian higher education sector post COVID-19
Roger Dawkins
COVID-19 has changed aspects of how universities provide teaching. Hybrid-flexible teaching is one outcome of this, being a way to simultaneously deliver a subject in three modes.
Alison Owens, Susan Loomes, Margot Kearns & Peter Mahoney
The reach of COVID-19 continues to be immense. Institutions highly dependent on international students in particular have been impacted. 15
COVID-19 disruption to research and research training in Australia: Gender and Career-Stage Inequalities
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The Endeavour international scholarship scheme was a winner for the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. Was it a winner for Australia? 33
Zoomed – A personal reflection on the long, slow destruction of Australia’s university system Louise Johnson
COVID’s impact has often been highly personal. This personal reflection wonders whether COVID became a smokescreen for our new neoliberal universities. 40
Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer and Catherine Link
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Intelligent design?? How to Be a Design Academic, by Alethea Blackler and Evonne Miller (Eds.)
How the Kingdom of Bhutan played the Australian Government – and won Joanne Barker
Overcoming Managerialism? How?? Overcoming Managerialism: Power, Authority and Rhetoric at Work, by Robert Spillane and Jean-Etienne Joullié
Alison M. Downham Moore
COVID-19’s impact on research has been monumental. This paper examines the disruptions caused and considers the longterm impacts.
Hybrid-flexible (HyFlex) subject delivery and implications for teaching workload: A ‘small data’ analysis of one academic’s first-hand experience in 2021 and 2022
Reviewed by Neil Mudford
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Organising during COVID-19 Organising during the Coronavirus Crisis – The Contradictions of Our Digital Lives, by Mike Healy Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer
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A life in the academy My Accidental Career, by Brenda Niall Reviewed by Bob Birrell
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Are universities a lost cause?
Rethinking universities’ foreign interference obligations: Lessons from the High Court
The Dark Side of Academia: How Truth Is Suppressed, by The Secret Professor
Matt Simpson & Andrew Tarnowskyj
Reviewed by Brian Martin
The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act (2018) requires those who engage with Australian political systems on behalf of a foreign principal to register. How could this impact universities?
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