Inaugural Higher Education Workforce Forum

Inaugural Higher Education Workforce Forum
1st & 2nd December 2010 | Sydney Harbour Marriott

The federal tertiary education reform agenda with its focus on broader participation, quality, innovation and engagement has immediate implications for the current and future higher education workforce.

The Inaugural Higher Education Workforce Forum will look at the changing face of the higher education workforce. The forum offers you the opportunity to examine and debate the implications of a demand driven system and the impact of socio-economic and demographic indicators. The challenges for supply, the issues for workforce planning and industrial relations, the quality of the workforce, academic renewal, the opportunities for professional development and advancement will all feature in sessions presented by leaders from across the sector.

These are some of the themes on which speakers from across the tertiary sector will lead discussion

• Profiling the Australian Higher Education workforce – nature and drivers for change
• The ageing workforce, student teacher ratios and gaps in supply capacity
• The difficulties posed by limited pathways and poor career structures
• Award modernisation – the higher education perspective
• Reviewing professional standards, changing roles and expectations
• Funding and performance management in the new policy environment
• International recruitment
• The Professional Staff – issues for equity, career structures and working conditions
• Frameworks for workforce renewal, organisational change and change management
• Developing workforce capacity and maintaining quality in a new tertiary education environment

Speakers include:

• Professor Stephen Parker, Vice Chancellor, University of Canberra
• Professor Graeme Hugo, Director – GISCA & Professor of Geography, University of Adelaide
• Dr Julie Jackson, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality Enhancement), La Trobe University
• Jeannie Rea, National President, NTEU
• Vicki Thomson, Director, Australian Technology Network
• Maree Conway, Executive Director, Association for Tertiary Education Management
• Professor Ross Guest, Professor of Economics, Griffith Business School
• Ian Argall, Executive Director, Australian Higher Education Industrial Association
• Dr Judy Szekeres, Director, South Australian Institute of Business and Technology, University of South Australia

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