Keeping count: what's happening and where

Tight budget forecasts, especially in arts and sciences, are resulting in redundancies and slashed face-to-face teaching time.

Tight budget forecasts, especially in arts and sciences, are resulting in redundancies and slashed face-to-face teaching time. This is the state of play.

SYDNEY: 7.5 per cent staff cut, including about 150 academic staff. Non-performing academics will be targeted.

MACQUARIE: Job cuts in arts and science with possible reductions in tutorials and contact hours. Macquarie says there is no plan to reduce total academic numbers across the university.

QUEENSLAND: $600,000 cut to casual teaching budget in arts, affecting languages. Likely to reduce the range of specialised subjects available each year.

MONASH: Small-scale job losses in science, medicine, business and economics following some redundancies last year.

LA TROBE: $36 million budget hole could lead to job cuts. Vice-chancellor Paul Johnson says the outlook for domestic enrolments is hard to predict.

MELBOURNE: Cuts to professional staff to ease science faculty budget. Proposal for academic restructuring is expected soon.

ADELAIDE: Abandoned plans to cut tutorials in the social sciences and humanities after student protests.

VICTORIA: 90 professional staff to be cut on top of 30 jobs on the TAFE side following state government funding cuts.