'Them and Us' - General and Non-General Staff in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper examines aspects of the 'binary divide' in Australian higher education staffing, looking at the role of general staff in tertiary education administration and management in the 1990s, and the antipathy many members of academic community appear to have toward general staff. There are brief comparisons with the situation in three other countries, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland which provide a point of comparison with the Australian situation. This report was prepared as an outcome both of research into the Australian situation and an overseas visit funded by an ATEM International Travel Grant in 1998.