Two new reports have contradictory findings on job satisfaction levels for academics.
Either Australian academics are among the least satisfied in the world or they have consistently high levels of job satisfaction - much higher than their public sector and private sector counterparts. It all depends on who you ask. Two recently released reports have delivered these startlingly different evaluations of the job satisfaction levels of Australian academics. The first finding comes from a study published in People and Place that uses Australian responses to the 2007 international Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey. The paper asserts that low job satisfaction is irrevocably...
