Scandals in Australian universities
Ross H. McKenzie (noreply@blogger.com)
In Australia, scandals about the management of public universities continue to be covered in the media. A recent one is the use of billions of dollars to pay consulting firms to tell management which staff to sack and courses to cut because they are not making a profit. Below is a recent episode of an ABC (Australian equivalent of BBC or PBS in USA) show on the topic, Chaos on Campus. I tend to avoid engaging too much with media lamenting the state of unversities as I find it too disturbing. How