Source: AAP or call 1800512348. Unfortunately, UNSW is not insulated from the national and global impact of the pandemic.". Your web browser is no longer supported. No one in the study had been identified as COVID-19 positive before. The research paper models seven scenarios. Please contact student@anu.edu.au for assistance. ANU research priorities address the challenges facing Australia and the world. Professor Schmidt has asked staff to give feedback on the changes, saying the new cuts are "painful" but necessary to allow the university to “thrive in the years to come”. Alternatively, it can be applied to future study. Semester one 2020 begins 24 February 2020. Ask Amazon Alexa for the latest SBS News or listen to SBS Radio. Flexible working arrangements will also be offered to staff to reduce the university’s real estate footprint. ANU has a huge variety of support services, programs and activities to enhance your student experience. “Most of these job losses could have been prevented if the government had made JobKeeper available to university workers. New students should contact international.admissions@anu.edu.au. By subscribing, you agree to SBS’s terms of service and privacy policy including receiving email updates from SBS. ANU researchers give the first wide-ranging global economic assessment of the effects of Covid-19 to help policy policymakers prepare a coordinated respone to the economic costs of a pandemic and as the virus evolves. Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox. A total of 471 university workers will be made redundant from the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). On Wednesday morning, UNSW Vice-Chancellor Ian Jacobs told staff 256 positions - 3.8 per cent of its workforce - would be made redundant across the institution to recoup $39 million in savings. The report indicates potential savings would be found by limiting travel, reducing the use of contractors, and increasing investments in greenhouse gas emission reductions. Australia's international students are going hungry, with 60 per cent now unemployed, 'Very positive step': International student advocates welcome new Adelaide pilot program. As coronavirus spreads across the globe, new modelling from The Australian National University (ANU) is set to help policymakers respond to the economic costs in the face of a pandemic and as the virus evolves. The new round of cuts follows an additional 250 voluntary redundancies that have already taken place at the ANU, bringing the total number of jobs eliminated at the institution to 465 this year. “The stark reality is: we need to save money, and this will mean spending a lot less, both on our non-salary expenditure, but also on salaries,” Professor Schmidt told staff via email. "We screened 3000 blood samples provided by healthy people around Australia for antibodies to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2," Associate Professor Ian Cockburn, who co-led the research with Professor Elizabeth Gardiner, said. ANU is a world-leading university in Australia’s capital. “NTEU cannot understand how the government can just sit idly watching thousands and thousands of jobs disappearing from higher education," National President Dr Alison Barnes said. Researchers described it as "another weapon in our armoury" to combat further waves of the virus. 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