Student-led petition fights lecturer’s sacking at Sydney’s Macquarie University
In just over a week, mathematics students at Sydney’s Macquarie University have already won the support of well over 400 students and colleagues for a petition demanding the reversal of an announced retrenchment of a highly-regarded mathematics lecturer.
Dr Frank Valckenborgh was told he was made redundant on June 18 as a result of a “hunger games”-style process. Academic staff members across the entire university were forced to compete for their own jobs, via a “spill and fill” process, as the management sought to forcibly retrench more than 80 full-time academics.
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‘Clash of 2 pandemics’: Doctors find that COVID-19 spurs diabetes By Jason Gale, Bloomberg News
Published: May 9, 2021, 1:45pm
Share: A patient is treated at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center on Dec. 23, 2020, in Colton, California. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
When Ziyad Al-Aly’s research team told him how often diabetes appeared to strike COVID-19 survivors, he thought the data must be wrong, so he asked his five colleagues to crunch the numbers again.
Weeks later, they returned the same findings after sifting through millions of patient records. By then Al-Aly had also gone digging into the scientific literature and was starting to come to terms with an alarming reality: COVID-19 isn’t just deadlier for people with diabetes, it’s also triggering the metabolic disease in many who didn’t previously have it.
A CUPUW “summit” attempted to create a rift between casual and permanent university workers, and seek posts within the National Tertiary Education Union.