Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 7d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 15/09/12 02:30 PM Author Share Posted 15/09/12 02:30 PM This is the thing about being in education...Swinburne university is withdrawing about a dozen courses, increasing fees by up to 26 per cent and is planning to sell its Prahran and Lilydale campuses.Bendigo TAFE has closed its Kyneton campus, will divest its Castlemaine campus, and will cut about 100 staff this year.Holmesglen will stop delivering some VCE programs, increase fees by 102 per cent next year, and wants to acquire Swinburne's Prahran site.Victoria University will cut 99 teaching staff, increase fees for vocational training in schools, and scrap courses in tourism, animal studies and veterinary nursing.GippsTAFE will push to merge with Chisholm and Advance TAFE by the end of next year and cut staff by 100.THE Gillard government has threatened to withhold vocational grants to Victoria because of Premier Ted Baillieu's TAFE cuts, putting in doubt almost $435 million of federal funding.http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tafe-may-lose-another-400m-as-canberra-threatens-baillieu-over-cuts-20120915-25zei.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest XR09 Guests Posted 15/09/12 08:10 PM Share Posted 15/09/12 08:10 PM (edited) My wife is a teacher. Special needs. She does pretty well but is the only one in her school with her qualifications.Most up here in QLD are on a yearly contract now.....starters get a term or two.So all are farked when it comes to getting a house loan or any loan for that matter.The catholic schools just went on strike about it.Least I can write off the losses on my personal shares...god bless blanket trusts..pty ltd. Pitty we cant do the same with the cash we have to throw at the bottomess loss pit called our super Edited 15/09/12 08:11 PM by XR09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexual harrassment panda I see a red door and I want to paint it black Donating Members 5,919 Member For: 15y 3m 27d Gender: Male Location: Far north queensland Posted 15/09/12 08:30 PM Share Posted 15/09/12 08:30 PM I changed my super over to cash, crap interest rate but at least it's not a nett loss for the year . . . . but bought a house to make up for ithttp://www.cnbc.com/id/49028996 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Member 1,627 Member For: 17y 11m 11d Gender: Male Location: Slip Sliding Away Posted 16/09/12 11:18 AM Share Posted 16/09/12 11:18 AM Guys this seems the norm these days.I worked for a large engineering firm here in Melbourne that was working on the Olympic Dam Project and I was one of 180 that got the @rse last month.Was hard finding work once the other 179 started looking too and had to take a $40k pay cut just to keep the money coming in.Heard from a mate on Thursday (who also works for an Engineering company doing design for BHP) that he and 70-80 others finish up on Friday.So from 2 companys I know that's 250 people out of work and alot of other places arent looking or offering low wages knowing they have the pick of whos looking.Lets hope something happens and we get back into THE GOOD TIMES once again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookeyMaster Donating Members 1,531 Member For: 14y 2m 2d Gender: Male Location: Parramatta, NSW Posted 16/09/12 11:47 AM Share Posted 16/09/12 11:47 AM Swinburne university is withdrawing about a dozen courses, increasing fees by up to 26 per cent and is planning to sell its Prahran and Lilydale campuses.Bendigo TAFE has closed its Kyneton campus, will divest its Castlemaine campus, and will cut about 100 staff this year.Holmesglen will stop delivering some VCE programs, increase fees by 102 per cent next year, and wants to acquire Swinburne's Prahran site.Victoria University will cut 99 teaching staff, increase fees for vocational training in schools, and scrap courses in tourism, animal studies and veterinary nursing.GippsTAFE will push to merge with Chisholm and Advance TAFE by the end of next year and cut staff by 100.THE Gillard government has threatened to withhold vocational grants to Victoria because of Premier Ted Baillieu's TAFE cuts, putting in doubt almost $435 million of federal funding.http://www.theage.co...0915-25zei.htmlIn NSW at least, Teachers are quarantined (and have been as long as I can remember) from job losses/financing cuts. Their wages may be capped at 2.5% a year but they're secure in their jobs. However, the NSW government announced that they will cut 800 regional support staff (we haven't yet got info on the exact numbers from departments, we've just got emails saying they are deciding which positions will go from January) in the Department of Education which includes child behavioural/psychological/learning difficulties support staff, curriculm support plus others I don't know of and a small number of state corporate staff. Then there's I think 1200 to go from TAFE but that does include teachers unlike the schools.Obviously it's simply coincidence of course that this was announced only days after the council elections... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worm A much better forum Silver Donating Members 3,808 Member For: 16y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 16/09/12 12:09 PM Share Posted 16/09/12 12:09 PM I'm in Secondary... Primary and secondary jobs are always safe cause there will always be kids to teach...University cutbacks are occurring as the government has stopped subsidizing courses... And people don't want to come out with massive debts... Do they just go into work...TAFE funding has been cut to the sh*thouse too... We have had the same happen with VCAL.Ted B. is a cockhead. He went on record saying that of voted in, teachers would be the highest paid in the nation. I wish he had have said schools would receive the highest funding in the nation. People don't understand that our wages come from a school budget based on student funding... He may give us a "pay rise" without actually giving the school any extra money... It will just be taken from money that would otherwise go to funding students...He says that the economy doesn't allow for increases... Have people stopped speeding? I'm sure he's still receiving a sh*tload from fines. Have people stopped paying tax (I know I haven't?), have people stopped blowing money on the pokies? (not from what I see?) where are the government falling short in the revenue raising process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Here since the start... Lifetime Members 10,282 Member For: 21y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 16/09/12 12:17 PM Share Posted 16/09/12 12:17 PM They just spent it all on a holiday to China. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLY6T Donating Members 585 Member For: 17y 6m 21d Gender: Male Location: vic , melb SE Posted 16/09/12 10:08 PM Share Posted 16/09/12 10:08 PM Guys this seems the norm these days.I worked for a large engineering firm here in Melbourne that was working on the Olympic Dam Project and I was one of 180 that got the @rse last month.Was hard finding work once the other 179 started looking too and had to take a $40k pay cut just to keep the money coming in.Heard from a mate on Thursday (who also works for an Engineering company doing design for BHP) that he and 70-80 others finish up on Friday.So from 2 companys I know that's 250 people out of work and alot of other places arent looking or offering low wages knowing they have the pick of whos looking.Lets hope something happens and we get back into THE GOOD TIMES once again!!!I work for a melbourne engineering machining shop. . All our bhp contracts are on hold because of iron ore prices. 50mill $$$ worth. . . Thank god for aerospace and defence jobs or we would be gone!!!!!!! Shut up shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kyle Get It To Wheelspin Uncontrolably Then Give It Another 5 Pounds Cruise Control 2,697 Member For: 14y 4m Gender: Male Location: Work Posted 16/09/12 11:51 PM Share Posted 16/09/12 11:51 PM Find a life to live, find a woman to love, find a place to work--andlive to your fullest, love to your greatest capacity, work yourhardest, and be a good person. Then die knowing nothing will havereally made a difference in the overall scheme of things 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 6m 21d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 17/09/12 12:01 AM Share Posted 17/09/12 12:01 AM ^ Wow.. That's a bit morbid..But unfortunately true.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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