#tertiarysector — Public Fediverse posts

More reporting on one of my fave topics, #ANU #GOvernance and the #Bell saga.

“It’s fair to say the best and brightest at ANU were not involved at any point in this farce. Pity the academics, staff and students who have suffered the ignominy of being associated with an institution that one person told me was being run “like a start-up, rather than like a public entity governed by federal law”. (Source: Crickey News)

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/anu-australian-national-university-genevieve-bell/

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityGovernance #Go8 #JulieBishop

More reporting on one of my fave topics, #ANU #GOvernance and the #Bell saga.

“It’s fair to say the best and brightest at ANU were not involved at any point in this farce. Pity the academics, staff and students who have suffered the ignominy of being associated with an institution that one person told me was being run “like a start-up, rather than like a public entity governed by federal law”. (Source: Crickey News)

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/anu-australian-national-university-genevieve-bell/

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityGovernance #Go8 #JulieBishop

More reporting on one of my fave topics, #ANU #GOvernance and the #Bell saga.

“It’s fair to say the best and brightest at ANU were not involved at any point in this farce. Pity the academics, staff and students who have suffered the ignominy of being associated with an institution that one person told me was being run “like a start-up, rather than like a public entity governed by federal law”. (Source: Crickey News)

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/anu-australian-national-university-genevieve-bell/

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityGovernance #Go8 #JulieBishop

More reporting on one of my fave topics, #ANU #GOvernance and the #Bell saga.

“It’s fair to say the best and brightest at ANU were not involved at any point in this farce. Pity the academics, staff and students who have suffered the ignominy of being associated with an institution that one person told me was being run “like a start-up, rather than like a public entity governed by federal law”. (Source: Crickey News)

Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/anu-australian-national-university-genevieve-bell/

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityGovernance #Go8 #JulieBishop

Indeed, why is the Jobs Ready Graduate scheme (#JRG ) still in operation. Our #Labor govt has had ample time to kill it off and replace it with any number of better tuition fees schedules. SO what’s the problem here? This article won’t answer that question, but it might point the way to better alternatives.

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityFees #Education #JasonClareMP

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-jobs-ready-graduate-package/

Indeed, why is the Jobs Ready Graduate scheme (#JRG ) still in operation. Our #Labor govt has had ample time to kill it off and replace it with any number of better tuition fees schedules. SO what’s the problem here? This article won’t answer that question, but it might point the way to better alternatives.

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityFees #Education #JasonClareMP

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-jobs-ready-graduate-package/

Indeed, why is the Jobs Ready Graduate scheme (#JRG ) still in operation. Our #Labor govt has had ample time to kill it off and replace it with any number of better tuition fees schedules. SO what’s the problem here? This article won’t answer that question, but it might point the way to better alternatives.

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityFees #Education #JasonClareMP

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-jobs-ready-graduate-package/

Indeed, why is the Jobs Ready Graduate scheme (#JRG ) still in operation. Our #Labor govt has had ample time to kill it off and replace it with any number of better tuition fees schedules. SO what’s the problem here? This article won’t answer that question, but it might point the way to better alternatives.

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityFees #Education #JasonClareMP

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-jobs-ready-graduate-package/

Indeed, why is the Jobs Ready Graduate scheme (#JRG ) still in operation. Our #Labor govt has had ample time to kill it off and replace it with any number of better tuition fees schedules. SO what’s the problem here? This article won’t answer that question, but it might point the way to better alternatives.

#AusPol #TertiarySector #UniversityFees #Education #JasonClareMP

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04/the-jobs-ready-graduate-package/

Hmmm... looks like the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 has come short of what is really needed (on the ground) in the #TertiarySector. In order to fix the crisis in our #Universities, there cannot be one boilerplate solution as each institution has its own set of issues to address. This ASPI article by Anna Alexander reminds us that legislation is quite the minefield when it tries to address everything that is wrong with University #Governance as well as everything else that needs looking into.

read more:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fixing-the-architecture-governance-reform-for-northern-australias-universities/

Hmmm... looks like the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 has come short of what is really needed (on the ground) in the #TertiarySector. In order to fix the crisis in our #Universities, there cannot be one boilerplate solution as each institution has its own set of issues to address. This ASPI article by Anna Alexander reminds us that legislation is quite the minefield when it tries to address everything that is wrong with University #Governance as well as everything else that needs looking into.

read more:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fixing-the-architecture-governance-reform-for-northern-australias-universities/

Hmmm... looks like the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 has come short of what is really needed (on the ground) in the #TertiarySector. In order to fix the crisis in our #Universities, there cannot be one boilerplate solution as each institution has its own set of issues to address. This ASPI article by Anna Alexander reminds us that legislation is quite the minefield when it tries to address everything that is wrong with University #Governance as well as everything else that needs looking into.

read more:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fixing-the-architecture-governance-reform-for-northern-australias-universities/

Hmmm... looks like the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 has come short of what is really needed (on the ground) in the #TertiarySector. In order to fix the crisis in our #Universities, there cannot be one boilerplate solution as each institution has its own set of issues to address. This ASPI article by Anna Alexander reminds us that legislation is quite the minefield when it tries to address everything that is wrong with University #Governance as well as everything else that needs looking into.

read more:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fixing-the-architecture-governance-reform-for-northern-australias-universities/

Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

Yes to all of this:
“Australian universities need fixing, not just a funding boost. The sector is engulfed in scandals, from excessive pay for management, to wage underpayments, to huge spending on things like consultants, travel and advertising.

These issues don’t just come from underfunding; they stem from how universities are structured and regulated. Most importantly, the management of universities needs to become accountable to students, staff and the public at large. Without fixing the sector’s governance issues, additional public money is at risk of being mismanaged, undermining the public confidence necessary to maintain higher levels of public funding.”
(Jack Thrower, Senior Economist -Australia Institute : 3 hours ago 15.30 AEDT Link: https://live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-point-live-new-data-reveals-taxpayers-subsidising-fossil-fuel-companies-to-the-tune-of-16-2-billion-record-oil-release-to-ease-prices-husic-backs-gas-export-tax/?post=6a5561d50a#6a5561d50a )

#TertiarySector #FundingUniversities #Managerialism #EducationCorporateStyle

These words are not mine, but they do a good job at expressing my fears for the future of our #TertiarySector

“The university sector’s continued high spending on consultants and the uncertainty staff face may well be contributing to a crisis in higher education staff mental health.

Adelaide University’s own Professor Maureen Dollard published results of a university sector survey last week indicating what many have been saying for the past few years: psychological safety in Australia’s higher education sector is in very poor shape.

Universities are alike in high spending on consultants and alike in poor psychological safety for staff. The low state of staff morale at UTS and ANU in particular has received plenty of coverage in the press. What Professor Dollard’s work shows in this new study is how this phenomenon is present throughout the higher education sector.

It is past time for a re-evaluation of how universities engage with consultants and how they can be better employers and better providers of the education students need.”
Source:
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260219-was-the-adelaide-university-merger-really-worth-185-million-in-consultants

The truly frightening revelations is the cost of Consultancies — in this case AU (Adelaide University) merger costs:

“The contract, which ran from September 2023 to 5 January 2026, was worth around $399,000 per day, or equivalent to the annual salaries of a professor and a senior lecturer combined. Put another way, the consulting contract was the equivalent to the salary of 420 professors and 420 senior lecturers for a year.

Was the level of complexity of the merger enough to justify spending the same amount as it would on the annual labour of 840 highly educated academics?”

Truly gobsmacked by this one… meanwhile, the cost of an Arts Degree (BA) is daunting for all who enrol for one — thanks to the Morrison (#ScottyFromMarketing) Jobs ready Graduate scheme.

#UTS #AdelaideUniversity #ANU #Consultants #JRG

These words are not mine, but they do a good job at expressing my fears for the future of our #TertiarySector

“The university sector’s continued high spending on consultants and the uncertainty staff face may well be contributing to a crisis in higher education staff mental health.

Adelaide University’s own Professor Maureen Dollard published results of a university sector survey last week indicating what many have been saying for the past few years: psychological safety in Australia’s higher education sector is in very poor shape.

Universities are alike in high spending on consultants and alike in poor psychological safety for staff. The low state of staff morale at UTS and ANU in particular has received plenty of coverage in the press. What Professor Dollard’s work shows in this new study is how this phenomenon is present throughout the higher education sector.

It is past time for a re-evaluation of how universities engage with consultants and how they can be better employers and better providers of the education students need.”
Source:
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260219-was-the-adelaide-university-merger-really-worth-185-million-in-consultants

The truly frightening revelations is the cost of Consultancies — in this case AU (Adelaide University) merger costs:

“The contract, which ran from September 2023 to 5 January 2026, was worth around $399,000 per day, or equivalent to the annual salaries of a professor and a senior lecturer combined. Put another way, the consulting contract was the equivalent to the salary of 420 professors and 420 senior lecturers for a year.

Was the level of complexity of the merger enough to justify spending the same amount as it would on the annual labour of 840 highly educated academics?”

Truly gobsmacked by this one… meanwhile, the cost of an Arts Degree (BA) is daunting for all who enrol for one — thanks to the Morrison (#ScottyFromMarketing) Jobs ready Graduate scheme.

#UTS #AdelaideUniversity #ANU #Consultants #JRG

These words are not mine, but they do a good job at expressing my fears for the future of our #TertiarySector

“The university sector’s continued high spending on consultants and the uncertainty staff face may well be contributing to a crisis in higher education staff mental health.

Adelaide University’s own Professor Maureen Dollard published results of a university sector survey last week indicating what many have been saying for the past few years: psychological safety in Australia’s higher education sector is in very poor shape.

Universities are alike in high spending on consultants and alike in poor psychological safety for staff. The low state of staff morale at UTS and ANU in particular has received plenty of coverage in the press. What Professor Dollard’s work shows in this new study is how this phenomenon is present throughout the higher education sector.

It is past time for a re-evaluation of how universities engage with consultants and how they can be better employers and better providers of the education students need.”
Source:
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260219-was-the-adelaide-university-merger-really-worth-185-million-in-consultants

The truly frightening revelations is the cost of Consultancies — in this case AU (Adelaide University) merger costs:

“The contract, which ran from September 2023 to 5 January 2026, was worth around $399,000 per day, or equivalent to the annual salaries of a professor and a senior lecturer combined. Put another way, the consulting contract was the equivalent to the salary of 420 professors and 420 senior lecturers for a year.

Was the level of complexity of the merger enough to justify spending the same amount as it would on the annual labour of 840 highly educated academics?”

Truly gobsmacked by this one… meanwhile, the cost of an Arts Degree (BA) is daunting for all who enrol for one — thanks to the Morrison (#ScottyFromMarketing) Jobs ready Graduate scheme.

#UTS #AdelaideUniversity #ANU #Consultants #JRG

These words are not mine, but they do a good job at expressing my fears for the future of our #TertiarySector

“The university sector’s continued high spending on consultants and the uncertainty staff face may well be contributing to a crisis in higher education staff mental health.

Adelaide University’s own Professor Maureen Dollard published results of a university sector survey last week indicating what many have been saying for the past few years: psychological safety in Australia’s higher education sector is in very poor shape.

Universities are alike in high spending on consultants and alike in poor psychological safety for staff. The low state of staff morale at UTS and ANU in particular has received plenty of coverage in the press. What Professor Dollard’s work shows in this new study is how this phenomenon is present throughout the higher education sector.

It is past time for a re-evaluation of how universities engage with consultants and how they can be better employers and better providers of the education students need.”
Source:
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260219-was-the-adelaide-university-merger-really-worth-185-million-in-consultants

The truly frightening revelations is the cost of Consultancies — in this case AU (Adelaide University) merger costs:

“The contract, which ran from September 2023 to 5 January 2026, was worth around $399,000 per day, or equivalent to the annual salaries of a professor and a senior lecturer combined. Put another way, the consulting contract was the equivalent to the salary of 420 professors and 420 senior lecturers for a year.

Was the level of complexity of the merger enough to justify spending the same amount as it would on the annual labour of 840 highly educated academics?”

Truly gobsmacked by this one… meanwhile, the cost of an Arts Degree (BA) is daunting for all who enrol for one — thanks to the Morrison (#ScottyFromMarketing) Jobs ready Graduate scheme.

#UTS #AdelaideUniversity #ANU #Consultants #JRG

These words are not mine, but they do a good job at expressing my fears for the future of our #TertiarySector

“The university sector’s continued high spending on consultants and the uncertainty staff face may well be contributing to a crisis in higher education staff mental health.

Adelaide University’s own Professor Maureen Dollard published results of a university sector survey last week indicating what many have been saying for the past few years: psychological safety in Australia’s higher education sector is in very poor shape.

Universities are alike in high spending on consultants and alike in poor psychological safety for staff. The low state of staff morale at UTS and ANU in particular has received plenty of coverage in the press. What Professor Dollard’s work shows in this new study is how this phenomenon is present throughout the higher education sector.

It is past time for a re-evaluation of how universities engage with consultants and how they can be better employers and better providers of the education students need.”
Source:
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260219-was-the-adelaide-university-merger-really-worth-185-million-in-consultants

The truly frightening revelations is the cost of Consultancies — in this case AU (Adelaide University) merger costs:

“The contract, which ran from September 2023 to 5 January 2026, was worth around $399,000 per day, or equivalent to the annual salaries of a professor and a senior lecturer combined. Put another way, the consulting contract was the equivalent to the salary of 420 professors and 420 senior lecturers for a year.

Was the level of complexity of the merger enough to justify spending the same amount as it would on the annual labour of 840 highly educated academics?”

Truly gobsmacked by this one… meanwhile, the cost of an Arts Degree (BA) is daunting for all who enrol for one — thanks to the Morrison (#ScottyFromMarketing) Jobs ready Graduate scheme.

#UTS #AdelaideUniversity #ANU #Consultants #JRG

Sometimes, sorely needed social & progressive legislation takes an inordinate amount of time to enact due to an abundance of caution. If the Environment is a delicate area to address, Tertiary education is not — past legislative actions which f**ed the system were quick enough to be enacted without much consultation (if any at all, as the JRG disaster shows).

“The Productivity Commission joined the call for a “new funding model as a priority” given the “design flaws” of Job Ready Graduates. It said the “differences in student contributions by perceived labour market needs fail to meet their goals while arbitrarily increasing debt burdens on some students”. The Accord’s final report in February 2024, highlighting this unfairness, found the student fee structure needs to be replaced.

The government has yet to act on this. Instead, students must wait for the newly established Australian Tertiary Education Commission to design a new funding and fees model.”

Source: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/how-did-australian-universities-go-from-free-education-to-50000-arts-degrees-in-50-years/

#JRG #TertiarySector #AsuPol #ATEC #HelpHecs #StudentFees

Well, this looks promissing.

We now know that the 20% cut to HELP debt has been passed by Parliament.

I thought that the Universities Accord Report was consigned to a dusty shelf since #JasonClairMP wasn't telling us what he proposed to do about it. But behold! Katy is froeshadowing big chances in the pipeline...

"We said it would be the very first thing that we'd do once Parliament returned. And now we've delivered on that promise.

This is just the beginning. Through the Universities Accord, we're building something bigger - a tertiary system where your chances don't depend on your postcode, your parents or where you come from." (Katy Gallagher MP)

It better be a short pipeline though, we can't wait around too long to fix the mess our #TertiarySector is in. I can't help but feel optimistic about this.

#AusPol #KatyCallegher #UniversitiesAccord #Go8 #AusPol

@smitjo
Thanks John. It was a good segment. While there was no new information in what was presented, it all needed repeating because only through repetition will people start to get it and perhaps call for urgent intervention to right the wrongs (this is of course not limited the the issues being faced by the #TertiarySector ). There are a lot of issues vying for public attention, but it shouldn’t be beyond our capacity to look at them all and demand actions from those with the authority to act, stirr them awake to their responsibilities beyond mere electoral prospecting.

#TheSundayShot #Manegerialism #Education #Broken #AusPol #GraemeTurner #NeoLiberalism

Yet more hapless victims of the mess successive administrators and 10 yrs of LNP cuts foisted on the #TertiarySector :

"ANU’s recent announcement to slash three full time positions at the ADB, and “disestablish” the Australian National Dictionary, another priceless project which has tracked the changes in Australian English from colonial times to the present, represent cultural vandalism on a breathtaking scale."

Still the Govt, looking at you Minister, is silent and looks upon the unfolding #debacle ... with arms crossed.

Read More:
https://insidestory.cmail20.com/t/r-l-tkllhidl-nuikumtyk-d/

@abcfeeds
That’s what happens when 1) govt undefund education and 2) you apply neoliberal economics to tertiary education institutions governance. Like, no one saw this coming… jezzzz

#AusPol #education #tertiarysector

@Michael_Collins
The corporatisation of the #tertiarySector is paying its dividends in the most egregious way. The neoliberal thinking that education can be run like a business and that markets would somehow nurture and develop educational institutions (in the economic sense) is shown, well and truly, to be a delusion.

The sector needs to be fully funded from the public purse and left to its previous collegiate form of governance. Funding could be made available from the ‘rapping of the land’ by #ExtractiveIndustries and a sensible PRRT increase （together with cuts in tax examption allowances for #FossilFuel Exporters）。

Gumption is all that is required from our govt。

#AusPol

Source: The Guardian
« Greens deputy leader and spokesperson for higher education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has lobbied against the bill. She said universities were “in strife” as a result of the “unabated” corporatisation of the sector.

“Rampant casualisation, wage theft and enormous workloads were already crushing staff, and now hundreds will be without a job,” she said. “It should be VC salaries that are cut, not staff jobs.” »

Of all commentators, academics and universtiy management types, and public officials, Senator Faruqi tells it like it is on the ground for the tertiary sector.

How is a govt imposed cap on student numbers in any way an equitable and socially responsible way to deal with a tertiary sector financial crisis of their onw making? Let’s call it what it is, the neo-liberal insistance in corporatising the education sector is as useful as teats on a bull and a measure designed to deny higher education to those least able to afford it. Current education policies reflect the top percentile of our society’s wish to ‘Keep the peasants in their places lest they want what we have’ attitude.

I truly despair for the future of Australian society.

#TertiarySector #Education #aupol

Source: The Guardian
« Greens deputy leader and spokesperson for higher education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has lobbied against the bill. She said universities were “in strife” as a result of the “unabated” corporatisation of the sector.

“Rampant casualisation, wage theft and enormous workloads were already crushing staff, and now hundreds will be without a job,” she said. “It should be VC salaries that are cut, not staff jobs.” »

Of all commentators, academics and universtiy management types, and public officials, Senator Faruqi tells it like it is on the ground for the tertiary sector.

How is a govt imposed cap on student numbers in any way an equitable and socially responsible way to deal with a tertiary sector financial crisis of their onw making? Let’s call it what it is, the neo-liberal insistance in corporatising the education sector is as useful as teats on a bull and a measure designed to deny higher education to those least able to afford it. Current education policies reflect the top percentile of our society’s wish to ‘Keep the peasants in their places lest they want what we have’ attitude.

I truly despair for the future of Australian society.

#TertiarySector #Education #aupol

Source: The Guardian
« Greens deputy leader and spokesperson for higher education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has lobbied against the bill. She said universities were “in strife” as a result of the “unabated” corporatisation of the sector.

“Rampant casualisation, wage theft and enormous workloads were already crushing staff, and now hundreds will be without a job,” she said. “It should be VC salaries that are cut, not staff jobs.” »

Of all commentators, academics and universtiy management types, and public officials, Senator Faruqi tells it like it is on the ground for the tertiary sector.

How is a govt imposed cap on student numbers in any way an equitable and socially responsible way to deal with a tertiary sector financial crisis of their onw making? Let’s call it what it is, the neo-liberal insistance in corporatising the education sector is as useful as teats on a bull and a measure designed to deny higher education to those least able to afford it. Current education policies reflect the top percentile of our society’s wish to ‘Keep the peasants in their places lest they want what we have’ attitude.

I truly despair for the future of Australian society.

#TertiarySector #Education #aupol

Source: The Guardian
« Interim vice-chancellor of the UoW, Prof John Dewar, said the sector was facing a period of “unprecedented government reform. In our current financial circumstances, we must focus on our strengths in teaching and research, which means that we must consider discontinuing some areas of teaching where we have low student demand and areas of research activity,” he said. »

What I read here is:
1) the university must focus on core business, teaching and research; and,
2) therefore, we’re cutting teaching and research.

WTF? And this is a Professor? Which discipline I wonder? Bean counting?

#Education #TertiarySector #Finance #auspol

Source: The Guardian
« Interim vice-chancellor of the UoW, Prof John Dewar, said the sector was facing a period of “unprecedented government reform. In our current financial circumstances, we must focus on our strengths in teaching and research, which means that we must consider discontinuing some areas of teaching where we have low student demand and areas of research activity,” he said. »

What I read here is:
1) the university must focus on core business, teaching and research; and,
2) therefore, we’re cutting teaching and research.

WTF? And this is a Professor? Which discipline I wonder? Bean counting?

#Education #TertiarySector #Finance #auspol

Entirely the result of forcing the tertiary sector to be run like a business by neoliberal-addled politicians which put bean counters in charge of institutions of research and learned readings.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/anu-rally-staff-forgo-pay-rise-vc-salary/104479394

#TertiarySector #NeoLiberalism #auspol #Education

Entirely the result of forcing the tertiary sector to be run like a business by neoliberal-addled politicians which put bean counters in charge of institutions of research and learned readings.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/anu-rally-staff-forgo-pay-rise-vc-salary/104479394

#TertiarySector #NeoLiberalism #auspol #Education

Entirely the result of forcing the tertiary sector to be run like a business by neoliberal-addled politicians which put bean counters in charge of institutions of research and learned readings.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-16/anu-rally-staff-forgo-pay-rise-vc-salary/104479394

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