UWA Education Action Network

  • Senate Protest: Stop Chakma's $40M Degree Factory

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    By December, Chakma plans to slash millions from our education. Our courses will be gutted, and our education quality will decrease. 400+ staff are set to be cut. Class sizes will increase, and there will be fewer people to actually make this uni run- from lecturers, to IT, to the admin staff who process our enrolments. Their working conditions are our learning conditions, and we…

  • Save Social Science at UWA: rally against the restructure

    • Boorloo/Perth & Walyalup/Fremantle

    During the semester break, the $40M restructure continued to unfold at UWA. We saw a shocking announcement about the gutting of Social Sciences- the axing of anthropology and sociology, 16 staff cuts, a shift away from research, and a 35:1 student-staff ratio target. Nothing about this restructure is good for students, or staff. It is about making the university more profitable…