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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
I am very pleased to present the Annual Report of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association for 2016. The Association continues to respond to the evolving needs of its members, and the past year witnessed a very hands-on role of the Association in the co-ordination of enterprise bargaining activities in Western Australia and assisting our four member Western Australian universities at the bargaining table. This strategic initiative should reap bene ts not only for those universities, but for all of our other members as well.
The management bargaining agenda across the sector is being driven in part by a realisation that our current industrial instruments are not t for future purpose, as identi ed in the Higher Education Workforce of the Future Report which was commissioned by the Association
in collaboration with the DVCC group
of Universities Australia and published by PricewaterhouseCoopers in January 2016. This Report received widespread media attention, with the workforce of the future also being the theme of the Association’s Annual HR/IR Conference in May, and of the International Conference which the Association
will be co-hosting in 2017 with its UK
and Canadian counterpart university employer associations, the Universities and Colleges Employer Association and Faculty Bargaining Services respectively.
The Association was strengthened during the year through Swinburne University
of Technology re-joining as a member, and continues to receive strong support from its members in all of its activities conducted for their individual and collective bene t.
I look forward to working with my fellow members of the Executive Committee and with the Executive Director and his team in continuing to build on the delivery of quality services to our members.
Professor Andrew Vann President
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