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Comment October 11, 2025
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
“The chair of the recent Senate inquiry into the quality of governance at Australia’s universities, Tony Sheldon, can describe the situation in a single word: rotten. While not employing the same colourful language, the Senate’s interim report, recently …”
News June 17, 2023
The Big Four consultants have captured universities
As fallout from the PwC scandal continues, universities emerge as another sector exploited by the largest consultancy firms.
News August 26, 2023
The destruction of university faculties
The power of vice-chancellors and their empires of managers and administrators are hurting our universities’ ability to provide their core service – education.
Life November 27, 2021
Academy of silences
While the Howard government is remembered for dismantling student unionism, the changes it made to university councils had an even more chilling effect on academics wishing to critique the universities where they work.
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