#managerialism — Public Fediverse posts

Senate enquiry: University Funding.
““We don’t endorse this sort of marketisation of universities…Essentially every university should be good.” (The Australian Institute giving evidence)

Not sure that telling a bunch of #NeoLiberal acolytes sitting in the benches is going to cut through… 1) we’ve all known for almost two decades now that “trickle down economics” is a euphamism for the concentration of wealth in fewer hands and 2) universities should be excellent, not just good, despite the #fascist tendencies of Office holders to keep the masses as illiterate as can be in order to preserve the privileged class’ standing in society..

The #AlboPM cotterie in charge of our lives is going to do what it wants to do (as little as that might be) come what may. After all the govt can always get the *official* Opposition to vote whatever centre-right policies they put forward.

https://thepoint.com.au/new/260827-australias-experiment-running-universities-like-a-market-has-failed-senate-inquiry-told

#AusPol #Education #Managerialism

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-devolution-must-extend-its-authoritarian-universities

Resonates with me as an ex-academic.

#academia #managerialism #authoritarianism

It never rains, it just pours…
“…the former University of South Australia Vice Chancellor David Lloyd received a total remuneration for the single year of 2025 of $3.112 million.”
It was left to the Vice Chancellor to apologise.

https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/07/10/adelaide-uni-chief-releases-video-over-former-vcs-obscene-payday

#TertiaryEducationWoes #NeoLiberalism #Managerialism is killing our institutions. #AusPol #SAPol

In the same article we learn that each #COllege was given a “tool that was shared with senior staff to tell them how much their school costs or makes [financially]. The university seems to think it’s good enough to be approved for decision-making.”

There, right there! Is the reason our Universities are in trouble and in the news these days. #Bloody minded #NeoLiberal thinking #Managerialism. Expecting #Univerisities to function like #ProfitsAndLoss businesses is not sheer lunacy but utter incompetance from our governing bodies including our govt ministers.

Even running at a loss, our universities produce graduates who return massive increases in #productivity and contributions to the #Economy over time.

#FreeDegrees #NoMoreStudentDebt #TheCleverCountry #AusPol #FundOurUniversities

Good grief, what a clusterf*^%

“The ICAC inquiry has heard former UOW governance chief Alyssa White celebrated recruiting former colleagues because the university was "broke" before later agreeing recruitment processes were compromised.
Ms White accepted multiple candidates received advantages and agreed she had repeatedly breached university policies and conflicts of interest requirements.”

Read more
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/white-admits-recruitment-breaches-uow-icac/106897586

#UoW #UniversityCouncilWoes #TertiaryEducation #Cronyism #Managerialism #UniversityMarkets #NeoLiberalism

@drrimmer
Doubtless funds that have made their way into Chancellors/Councillors remunerations and the Consultancies they favour… When the core is rotten, best to carve it out before the whole apple sours.

Trouble in #Universityland brought to us by dunces’ #neoliberal ideology. And #managerialism .

#AusPol

AI for "employee appreciation" is here and it's dark (/Joshua Fluke)

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/2154666/ai-for-employee-appreciation-is-here-and-it-s-dark-joshua-fluke

“In a statement, Adelaide University said "there are some changes to most degrees from what is currently offered at the foundation universities".
"This may be reflected across contents, delivery and details in program naming, which have all been designed to optimally meet the needs of industry and future employers," a spokesperson for the university said.” (Source ABC)

Well, there’s your problem right off there. A university where course are optimised to ‘the needs of industry and future employers’. Effectively assigning a ‘saussage factory’ tag to #SA #University. This reflects the preposterous idea that Tertiary institutions are neo-liberal economic engines. They ought not to be. Universities must be — by virtue of their preeminent educational value — places of learning, discussions and discovery no matter whether employers find the fields of study appropriate to their rapacious needs.

Read more
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-09/sa-adelaide-university-merger-challenges/105981104

#UniversityMergerSA #NeoLiberalism #Managerialism #TertiarySaussageFactories #ArtsFaculty #AusPol

Is there anything else required to convince everyone that the issue and the problems with ANU’s alleged financial troubles is anything but financial trouble?

Squarely, this misapprehension is a direct result of #Mismanagement and #AccrualAccounting neither of which ought to be experienced by an education institution.

Time for the #Education #Minister Jason Clare to dismiss the council outright and implement the recommended fixes that were commended to him Including scrapping the #JobReadyGraduate #Morrison crap!

“If we believe the auditor, there is no crisis at the ANU. To be clear, as a government owned, not-for-profit entity, the ANU is under no pressure to maximise its profits so that it can maximise dividends paid to shareholders. On the contrary, when the ANU made a surplus of $89.9 million in 2024 it did so by spending less money on its students, staff and community than it received.” (Source: The Australian Institute)

#ANU #NeoLiberalism #Managerialism #BishopMustGo #ANUCouncil #AusPol #JasonClareMP #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow

Read more:

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-anus-hidden-90m-budget-surplus/

TIL: the ANU is awash with #CASH:
“But here is the paradox: while education and staffing were cut, ANU’s financial wealth kept growing. By 2023, the university held over $2B in financial assets and recorded $3.4B in total net assets. It continued to run cash surpluses despite reporting accrual accounting deficits”

AND that the financial crisis making the news and resulting in over 450 staff losses and plans to close some faculties are a direct result of the application of accrual accounting. This is an accounting practice that is necessary to run a business responsible to shareholders — but CANNOT be applied to education institutions which have a different raison d’etre and report to society (via parliaments).

#Managerialism and #NeoClassicEconomics responsible for the #FailedGovernance of ANU is made worse by the #Council’s use of ANU funds in speculative and #RealEstate investments partly funded by borrowings (Debt). These #NeoLiberal Council forays in #Productivism and #Capitalism are NOT core business to Universities. Not only is this the Absolutely Wrong Governance model to run a Uni, but it is currently grossly #Mismanaged and noone is taking responsibility for this, least of all #JulieBishop the #Chancellor of ANU.

Take a break and read the article, it is well written and explains much of what is going on. Furthermore, it provides the reasons why #Bishop should go and a sorely needed change to #Governance processes and responsibilities. If #JasonClaiMP can’t see this he’s a #FailedMinister

Read more:

https://michaelwest.com.au/uni-finances-anu-and-the-commercialisation-of-higher-ed/

#AccrualAccounting #TertiaryEducation #ANU #JulieBishop #Auspol #EducationMinister #SaveOurUniversities #GovernanceReformsNow #InUnity #JoinYourUnionNow #SaveOurUniversities #SackUniCouncils #CollegiateGovernance

@keiran_rowell
All of these problems are a direct result of the application of commercial and economic ‘growth’ theories which are so far removed from the core function of universities that I find it unimaginable that it is the dominant raison-d’etre and item on the agendum of university governance throughout Australia.

It is incomprehensible to me that economic productivism has been allowed to usurp the power from academia. This is truly an abomination. University governance ought to be subordinate to education outcomes not to managerialism and economic competition.

#ANU #Managerialism #NeoclassicalEconomicTheory #Neoliberalism #Education #UniversitiesAreNotBusinesses
#Productivism

Boeing CEO, as he plans to fire 17000 people, 10% of the workforce:

We need “to reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and to a more focused set of priorities”

Will these priorities include safety assurance, quality control and engineering excellence?

https://www.ft.com/content/0807d7e6-27e6-4561-8df2-424f201c2774

#Boeing #Managerialism

@interfluidity

Wow. Yes. I thought it was just me. Today I was 'blessed' by much 'managerialism'. Great word BTW.

#managerialism

@lymphomation You seem to presume that pharma managers serve the shareholders? (I wouldn't have expected you to spout this neoliberal propaganda on here, Karl! 😉 ) What if they are serving the interests of #managerialism itself?

This seems relevant to the recent discussion we had here about the firing of Dr Mike Joy and the problem of managerialism in our universities:

https://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224946206/adjunct-professor-dies-destitute-then-sparks-debate

So sad. Hopefully it sparks an open revolt against treating tertiary faculty like seasonal fruit pickers.

#managerialism #universities #academia #AdjunctFaculty

@LordWoolamaloo During a couple of decades of dealing with those in charge of funding the arts in Scotland I was surprised, saddened, and angered by how mediocre they were.
And, indeed, are.
They conserve consultants and administrators, not artists. The curse of #managerialism is everywhere. We deserve better. A stipend for artists for a start; let the Administrati deal with perpetual financial uncertainty instead.

This strikes such an uncomfortable chord, @ellieracheldare - I keep reluctantly listening to it to both validate and cringe at the discomfort it evokes 🙉

#HigherEducation #NeoLiberalism #AcademicDiscomfort #Managerialism #EmptyMetrics #AcademicGaslighting

https://twitter.com/ellieracheldare/status/1591062753493778433?s=20&t=4ZiYJgAE6ZfEGu-oYZBn0Q

Good read on what #Longtermism is & why its adoption by #Musk, Jack, thiel, and yes, Putin presents a present day geopolitical danger. #SpaceX has a role.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

This directly intersects w/ #Managerialism (which Putin has accepted as a means to thwart #Democracy.)
Billionaire plutocrats like these ideologies bc it’s a countering approach to the control & regulations #democracies put on big corporations & the super rich.

‘[Alasdair] MacIntyre … identified #scholarship, alongside #chess, #medicine, #science, #painting and #football, as potential, although fragile, respites from #consumerism, #managerialism, and the aimlessness of the #liberal world’. – Samuel McIlhagga, https://jacobin.com/2022/11/alasdair-macintyre-biography-marxism-catholicism-community/

I guess the key word here is ‘potential’.

@academicchatter

Yeah, I’m just gonna keep RTing, reboosting that post about Elon’s #managerialism and his sabotage of the US dollar, til people start to connect the dots.
If I find that podcast with Dave Troy and authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat talking about it, I’ll post it. #twitter

@Armando see more of Troy’s pieces. There’s intersection w/ he, Jack and Putin’s vision of #managerialism and the concept of the #Noosphere.
It’s complicated but intersects.
May take a few readings for it to sink in. Not a put down, I’m saying I had to read it a few times to get the connections. It is indeed complicated.

So I joined in May & failed to bring people with me from Twatter, so didn’t write an #introduction. Let’s try & do that properly now everyone is coming 😉 I trained as a #composer & first worked for Sibelius/Avid in #music #technology tech support then product management (9 1/2 yrs). Then I discovered I loved music #teaching & spent 12 years in classroom #musiceducation. In 2013 I finished my PhD & moved to Sydney Conservatorium (Sydney #university ) where I’ve been composing, moving into #hiphop production, teaching, & researching ever since. I love it (& my students) very much but the state of #neoliberal #managerialism in universities makes me very sad so I’ve got active with the #NTEU. Here on Mastodon I hope to share ideas with music teachers, researchers, philosophers & creatives, but I will slip into politics & cricket from time to time so sorry about that.