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Australia
“Employability … interdisciplinarity”? Have our unis stopped believing in education?
Our universities have become bottom-line companies while spending heavily on consultants and exorbitant executive salaries. Jude Manning He is a…
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ANU, other unis using ‘custom-made’ accounting to justify cuts
Australian universities are using accounting approaches that can help sell a narrative of financial hardship that can later be used…
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Australian unis have dropped again in global rankings
More than half of Australian universities fell Global rankings this week. Individual results always return. However, this decline, obtained through…
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UQP ‘Bila’ controversy reveals tension between unis and presses
Publishing has always involved tension between commercial and cultural purposes, but the recent debates around the University of Queensland Press…
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Australian unis rob staff, splash on Big 4 consultants, hoard billions
There is wage theft on an industrial scale at Australia’s public universities, while the Big 4 consultants charge huge fees…
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Academic speech on Palestine being silenced in Australian unis
In 2024, I taught a sociology course on human rights, which we discussed the influence of war and conflict on…
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