Academic and other research has consistently shown that the work of child care workers has historically been undervalued due to its feminised nature, its charitable origins and a low rate of unionisation. However employer submissions to wage fixing tribunals have both challenged a higher...

Since the 1970s Australia has been one of the few countries that has progressively advanced the concept of gender pay equity. This achievement has largely been due the centralised, industrial tribunal-based, wage fixing system. The wage rates created by industrial tribunals have been able to...

The story of pay equity in Australia is usually told in terms of the influence of wage setting institutions, and illustrated by the dramatic narrowing of the gender pay gap that occurred over the 1970s. The fate of pay equity since the 1980s has received much less attention, and indeed there has...

Quality education is absolutely essential for the overall development of the human resource base of a country. This requires imparting of appropriate knowledge, skills and values to the students. To achieve this faculty is the main source and instrument. In the present scenario where engineering...