Management expects a great deal of unpaid overtime - Anonymous employee Monash College Employee Review

2.0
6 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Competitive salary and packaging perks. Nice office in central CBD. Healthy EBA with pay rises. Free coffee.

Cons

Jo Mithen, CEO, is a ruthless business woman and lawyer. Under her leadership, the college has grown ridiculously large, focussing on Chinese students studying Business. It used to be a pathway to help students achieve entry in a more supportive environment. Now it is a money making factory and foreign student processing centre for Monash Uni. Students who can barely speak english or string two written sentences together are being passed with no questions asked. Fake medical certificates easily get students through the special consideration system. Completely devaluing degrees in Australia with this rubbish. Non teaching staff who are not unionised are expected to work ridiculous amounts of unpaid overtime, at all times suck up to their boss, management and the CEO, and never raise any issues. Otherwise find yourself on the end of performance management and forced exit.

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Cons

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Cons

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