The Centre for Future of Work at the Australia Institute presents analysis of historic and current data about university funding, governance, and industrial models. The Report, by Eliza Littleton (July 2023) is relevant to the Universities Accord Review currently underway and suggests that Australians are concerned about prioritisation of profit over the broader public interest needs of students, academics and the broader society.
We love Indigenous art centres but are we really supporting them the best we can as a sector? Jack Wilkie-Jans explores the challenges faced by Australia's remote Aboriginal arts centres in this piece for ArtsHub.
Read the article An article by Chris Hay, Professor of Drama at Flinders University examines the historical position of performing arts training in Australian Universities and its current value. 'Intake into the National Institute of Circus Arts has been ' paused'. Where to next for Australia's performing arts training?' was published in The Conversation on July 5th and can be accessed here.
First Nations people make diverse and important contributions to Australia’s workforce and are leading the way at the pinnacle of many sectors, but unacceptable gaps persist in education and employment outcomes at the population level. First Nations people continue to face additional barriers to work and study compared to other Australians. In this report, Jobs and Skills Australia has used administrative data to piece together new information to aid conversations about supporting First Nations people to thrive in Australia’s workforce.
Access the report The Centre for Economic Development (CEDA) have published information about Australia's global rankings in the 2023 IDM World Competitiveness Handbook which measures a range of factors including; economic performance, government efficiency, business efficiency and infrastructure. Australia performs strongly in terms of trade but falls behind in entrepreneurship and economic complexity. The report asserts that the most successful economies are smaller and have good institutional frameworks including strong education sectors. CEDA is the Yearbook's Australian partner. Western Australian production designer and FutureNow screen industry advisor Emma Fletcher is interviewed for Screenwest's Crew Spotlight series.
Read the Screenwest interview Westpac saw a 46 percent productivity gain, with no reduction in code quality, from software engineers that were aided by generative AI compared to a control group that performed the same tasks exclusively by hand, in a recent in-house experiment.
Read the iTNews article The modelling presented in this report concerning the highest fee band degrees shows that repayment periods of over 40 years are plausible under current policy settings.
Read the National Tertiary Education Union report This May 2023 Tech Jobs Update from the Tech Council of Australia finds that most of the recent growth in tech jobs has been driven by the indirect tech sector. Of the 10,500 jobs added in the last three months, 8,200 were tech intensive jobs in the indirect tech sector which includes all non-tech industries, like mining and banking, across the Australian economy.
Read the report This report details the full findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022. Of the 61 companies that participated, 56 are continuing with the four-day week (92%), with 18 confirming the policy is a permanent change. ‘Before and after’ data shows that 39% of employees were less stressed, and 71% had reduced levels of burnout at the end of the trial, while company revenue increased an average 1.4% over the period. Staff turnover also reduced by 57% over the trial period.
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