Region. Private office v open-plan space

“It’s a hot potato as far as academics are concerned,” said UWS executive business dean, Associate Professor Robyn McGuiggan, when commenting on academics having to give up private offices for open-plan space. Academics had refused to work from a Bankstown campus building being refurbished with open-plan office space and which is expected to host business courses from next year. She said in The Australian Financial Review. She said the rationale for open-plan spaces was simple: staff often teach at more than one campus and having their own office at a campus where they may only be based one day a week was unnecessary.

Region. Honour for UWS academic

Professor Christine Halse, director, of the University of Western Sydney's Centre for Educational Research (CER), has been appointed as an ethics expert to the European Commission on Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. Professor Halse, who is also President of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), is one of only two Australian academics to be appointed to the international expert panel. Professor Halse is based at the UWS Bankstown Campus.