Why hundreds of new uni teaching jobs are generating controversy

Sydney University will recruit hundreds of new teaching-focused academics in what it says is a bid to improve student experience and place a higher value on teaching in higher education.

The university will on Monday launch an international campaign to recruit more than 150 tenured academics after an initial appointment of internal applicants across 55 new roles. Teaching-focused academic roles are controversial among many academics who see the roles as career-limiting and involving intense workloads.

English and linguistics academic Nick Riemer, the university’s National Tertiary Education Union branch president, said there was a clear effort from senior management to break the teaching and research nexus.“There should be more academic jobs at the university because at the moment it has an overreliance on casualisation and that just involves outright exploitation,” he said.

But Scott said teaching at higher education level had been undervalued, and the roles would create viable career options for teaching specialists.

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