Students at the University of Western Australias (UWA) School of Social Sciences have launched a petition titled Save Social Sciences at UWA, seeking to halt a new round of job cuts and restructuring at the university. In just four days, there has been an outpouring of support. There are nearly 5,000 signatures and hundreds of comments expressing disgust at the escalating pro-corporate restructuring of universities at the expense of scholarship and genuine education.
According to WA Today, the UWAs School of Social Sciences is just the first to suffer in a $40 million cost-cutting program, with almost all staff in sociology and anthropology axed and their disciplines to disappear. Eight of nine positions are being eliminated in anthropo…
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