Tama’s eLearning Blog

Sometimes career prospects start to look up, as today when Higher Ed reports Academic shortage looms as the boomers retire en masse and a new generation of academic jobs open up in Australia. Then, of course, things stop looking promising as on the same page of the paper we find “Career paths closed to humanities postgraduates” which includes the all too true point that Paul Arthur makes: “jobs [are] scarce because universities tended not to replace senior retirements across humanities and social sciences”.