Jobs

Toowoomba’s campus for the University of Southern Queensland could be hard hit by job cuts in a bid to plug a $32 million budget hole. The National Tertiary Education Union has warned that UniSQ are refusing to detail exactly how many jobs will be cut in the latest redundancy round to hit the sector. NTEU UniSQ Branch President Professor Andrea Lamont-Mills said the union believed 60 jobs had been lost already, with one area set to lose almost 40 per cent of its staff. “These job cuts are devastating for not only the people affected, but colleagues left behind who will inevitably be forced to shoulder massive workload burdens,’’ Professor Lamont-Mills said. “The impact on Toowoomba, Ipswich and Springfield cannot