Top uni feels the strain of cutbacks
Source: theage.com.au Posted By: Anna C...5243 days ago
IN CHEMISTRY laboratories that have produced Nobel Prize-winning research, wastebaskets are overflowing as administrators cut back on cleaners.
Students have been frozen out of classes as courses are trimmed and the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression. Every professor, administrator and clerical worker has had their pay cut by 8 per cent.