Business Services Industry
'Care for care' cottage under threat.
Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2005
Byline: Bernard Lane
Nov 29, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A long-standing child care arrangement at Macquarie University is to be abandoned. The Australian tertiary institution's vice- chancellor, Di Yerbury, wants to close down the Parents' Cottage and replace it with a more traditional day care facility. Established in the mid-1970s, the Parents' Cottage allows those studying or teaching at Macquarie to pay for their children's place
at the creche with work in kind, minding the children during agreed shifts. It has received a licence in 2005 and now also offers paid employment, but remains one of only two such co-operative ventures at Australian...
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