The School of Psychology has told staff that it will repay them for wages stolen as part of an exploitative scheme for calculating marking hours of casual staff.
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This approach has favoured business, law, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM subjects) over politics, literature, gender studies, philosophy and visual arts the latter being singled out for closure and staff cuts.
The other side of this coin is that, today, most university workers live a precarious existence. Casual and fixed-term, precarious, staff make up at least 74%
of the university work force. This is because managements can pay casual staff far less than permanents.
Most early-career academics, including those who have completed a PhD, are not only broke due to debts accrued from post-graduate study, they can also face a lifetime of debt because permanent full-time work is no longer available.