Climate Justice Network - UoM
about 9 months ago

Yesterday the UoM NTEU Branch Committee and the Climate Justice Network sent this letter to Vice Chancellor Professor Duncan Maskell, RE: Prioritising Green Education in a Transformed Tertiary Sector.

In particular we would like to draw attention to our first point - the University is haemorrhaging climate and energy scientists, with little attention on this due to COVID-19

"In 2019, the University did not renew funding for the Climate and Energy College. The College has sin...ce relied on cross-subsidised funding from the Energy Transition Hub sitting within the College, which had a funding agreement with the Federal Government. In February 2020, the government announced that funding would cease in July 2020 as a cost-cutting measure, and there has been no guaranteed support from the University for the Hub and College to continue (and indications that the Hub will be abolished). A number of staff have already left the College, and there is no longer any administrative support. This means that the livelihoods of a large number of staff working on issues related to climate and energy are precarious. This precarity is compounded by the COVID-19 crisis, with the University flagging that fixed-term contracts and similar will not be renewed, and with no word on the future of the Hub or College"

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