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Even if you weren’t in attendance at the VC’s thank you morning tea last week, I presume will have been appraised of the content of the announcement. In brief, the CSMs in the Enterprise Agreement Variation (EAV) that we voted to support earlier this year are to cease.

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Members enjoyed the hospitality at the AGM in October. Minutes can be read here

The UWAASA Committee were pleased to host our new Vice-Chancellor Professor Amit Chakma at our recent committee meeting on the 27^th of August. Professor Chakma attended for over an hour and a half and we had an open and frank exchange of views on a range of issues for academics here at UWA. The notes from the meeting (approved without correction by the VC) can be read here

The new promotions process has moved ahead, but not without some surprises. It turns out that, within a number of Schools across at least a couple of Faculties, there were “pre-approval” processes being carried out to determine whether applications should be submitted.

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As academics at UWA, we find ourselves at a turning point. For a long time, we have been putting our shoulders to the wheel to do whatever needed to be done. When we have been asked to come up with new degrees, new programs, new intellectual structures, new ways of interacting with our students, etc. etc. etc. — we have done so. Continued here