UWS employs part-time 'sessional' staff

The University of Western Sydney (UWS) received hundreds of responses to the its call for expressions of interest from private-sector professionals to be employed as part-time "sessional" staff. Professor Robyn McGuiggan, dean of the UWS College of Business, said it was increasingly difficult to find staff in accounting, finance and law. UWS plans to have sessional staff on board by the first semester of 2008 which begins in March.