28 February 2006

VSU

While VSU has not come in yet, student unions have been shedding staff since late last year in waves of redundancies.

In some instances, this pre-VSU phase has been used as a mechanism by the universities to influence the shape of student organisations to come by refusing to agree on funding arrangements next semester until student unions 'reform' their organisational (including staffing) structures. If this is not losing student voice and autonomy, I don't know what is.

Vannessa (RMIT Student Union)

See also Adam Morton's article at http://www.theage.com.au/

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