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Stacey, Meghan; Fitzgerald, Scott; Wilson, Rachel; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Gavin, Mihajla – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Fixed-term contracts are a relatively recent, yet growing category of employment for teachers in the public school system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In this article, we draw on quantitative and qualitative data from a large state-wide survey (N = 18,234) of members of the public-school teacher union, the NSW Teachers' Federation, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Contracts, Teacher Employment, Public School Teachers
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Butson, Michael; Tower, John; Schwarz, Eric C. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2021
Employee turnover is the loss of talent in the workforce. High employee turnover is expensive and disruptive. Young employees are more likely to leave one job for a better one and are often less attached to an organisation while they are completing their education. The aquatics industry has been described as being in a crisis, experiencing…
Descriptors: Aquatic Sports, Recreational Facilities, Employer Attitudes, Labor Turnover
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McComb, Vivien; Eather, Narelle; Imig, Scott – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
There has been extensive research conducted into the plight of casual academic staff, the precarious nature of their work, their limited academic development opportunities, and their heightened risk of being positioned on the periphery of the workforce in academia. Institutions have attempted to mitigate this risk through the provision of academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Temporary Employment
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Richardson, Julia; Wardale, Dorothy; Lord, Linley – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
There have been widespread changes to working arrangements and employment relationships, including significant decreases in continuing/full-time employment contracts. This trend is particularly notable in academia, with more universities relying on the expertise of sessional, teaching-focused academics. This qualitative study extends understanding…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Temporary Employment, Part Time Employment, Teaching Conditions
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Australian Universities' Review, 2020
There is a growing divide between ongoing and precarious academics in Australia. Precarious academics are often exploited, underpaid, and have little hope of gaining permanency. In this article we offer suggestions to ongoing academics on how to improve the working lives and conditions of precarious colleagues. Our suggestions range from easy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Temporary Employment, Adjunct Faculty
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Charteris, Jennifer; Jenkins, Kathryn; Jones, Marguerite; Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
With the increasing casualisation of the teacher labour force, there is little written on the experiences of casual teachers and the challenges they face in brokering professional identities within constantly shifting and uncertain work contexts. Being a category bound casual teacher (a product of category boundary work) is a complex subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Faculty, Temporary Employment, Substitute Teachers
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Savage, Julia; Pollard, Vikki – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Despite decades of dependence on sessional teaching staff, universities in Australia and internationally still find it difficult to support the teaching work of this large, casual workforce. A significant consequence of casually-employed teaching staff is risk; sessional academics' professional identity is compromised, quality assurance of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Models, Foreign Countries
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Jenkins, Kathryn A.; Charteris, Jennifer; Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle; Jones, Marguerite – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
It is the norm for the casual teaching precariat to experience insecure labour conditions requiring an additional skill set to teachers with stable employment. As more beginning teachers than ever before commence work in casual employment--often a tenuous and unsupported transition into the profession--it is beholden on teacher educators to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Temporary Employment, Part Time Faculty
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Lekkas, D.; Winning, T. A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Consistent with quality enhancement, we report on how we used a continuous improvement cycle to formalise and embed an academic development and support programme for our School's sessional staff. Key factors in establishing and maintaining the programme included: local change agents supported initially by institutional project funding; School…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Temporary Employment
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Piller, Ingrid; Lising, Loy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
Australia is one of the world's largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Temporary Employment, Food Processing Occupations
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Reupert, Andrea; Wilkinson, Jane; Galloway, Letitia – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
While seconded and contracted teachers make a significant contribution to education faculties there is limited research regarding their experiences, needs and supports. Accordingly, interviews were conducted with five seconded and three contracted teachers in an Australian regional university and interpreted within a qualitative, interpretative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education
Nechvoglod, Lisa; Mlotkowski, Peter; Guthrie, Hugh – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
The purpose of this report is to provide national data on the technical and further education (TAFE) workforce in 2008 and, where possible, compare this with 2002 data collected for the report "Profiling the national vocational education and training workforce" (NCVER 2004). Currently, there is no regular consistent national collection…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Labor Force
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Connell, Julia; Burgess, John – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The aim of this article is to explore the influence of precarious (temporary) employment on employability and career development. Design/methodology/approach: The article draws together primary and secondary research material. Findings: Findings indicate that there are both positive and negative perspectives with regard to temporary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Career Development, Temporary Employment
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Hall, Richard; Harley, Bill – Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2000
The employee and job characteristics of fixed-term and casual female employees were compared with those of other female employees. Among female employees, the characteristics of the industry and occupation in which they are employed are as important than their contingent status in influencing employment outcomes. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2001
Includes "Editor's Introduction" (Cully); "A New Estimate of Casual Employment?" (Campbell, Burgess); "A New Estimate of Casual Employment?: Reply" (Murtough, Waite); "The 'Long-term or Permanent Casual'--An Oxymoron or 'A Well Enough Understood Australianism' in the Law?" (Owens); and "The ACTU's…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Foreign Countries
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