Academic staffing implications of age discrimination legislation for Australian universities [EIP 97/17]
This report examines features of academic culture, the way academics think about themselves as employed professionals and their work and their careers.
Abstract
This publication examines and reports on the salient points in the legal framework underpinning age discrimination legislation in the Australian states and unfair dismissal on the grounds of age at the Commonwealth level, and the legal interplay between them; examines demographic/statistical issues in relation to the staffing profile at the system level; develops a model which can project tables for any retention rate by age/rank/gender/discipline combinations at both the system and institutional levels; and explores a range of approaches that the higher education sector and individual universities could consider in developing their own approaches to career-long academic staff management through the latter years of service to final severance from institutional employment.
This research was funded under the Evaluations and Investigations Programme (EIP).
Author(s)
Barry A Sheehan;
The University of Melbourne;
Ian R Dobson;
Monash University;
Donna F Smith;
Phillips Fox, Solicitors
Publication Details
| Type : |
Reports |
| Published : |
2/1998 |
Topics Covered
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| Detailed :
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| Equity and access |
| Teachers and academic staff |
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Availability
Executive summary: view HTML
Report: download PDF 
(517 KB, 138 pages)
Not published in hard copy format