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To: Ian Jacobs and UNSW Management
Fight Course Cuts UNSW
We oppose any such attack on staff and students that attempts to make us pay for their crisis. We call on UNSW:
To end all subject and course cuts.
To reinstate previously cancelled courses.
To end job cuts and reinstate staff with the indefinite continuation of their employment.
Why is this important?
UNSW is currently using the crisis of COVID-19 as cover to cut courses and subjects and sack staff. We have already seen the mass sacking of casual staff who have been left within a source of income. We know that UNSW management have used these cuts to casual staff to justify cutting 10% of Term 2 Arts courses. These cuts are attacks on the quality of our education and massively reduce student’s choice in their education. The recent implementation of the trimester system at UNSW has demonstrated that students’ choice was never the motivation of Ian Jacobs and UNSW management, rather they are purely motivated by generating profits from our education.
Management is attempting to shift the cost of the lost revenue onto staff and students, by cutting courses and subjects, allowing for the sacking of staff and undermining of their wages, whilst continuing to charge students the same for a lower quality education.