Crikey readers continue to debate the tax-free status of religions (and their businesses), Olympic funding, the Melbourne model and more.
Melbourne Model
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The divine properties of Weet-Bix and milk
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Defending some “fancy pants arguments”
Crikey readers on climate change, sex in prisons, the Melbourne Model, boat people and more.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Worst. Editorial. Ever.
Crikey readers: not fans of Friday’s editorial on race and immigration. Plus responses from Melbourne Uni and the ABC’s Mark Scott.
Melbourne Muddle: elite students turning away from law in droves
Elite students are turning away from the once-prestigious Melbourne University law school in droves, shunning the Melbourne Model in favour of not only long-time rival Monash, but also RMIT and Deakin University.
University of Melbourne spinning themselves a lie on VCA
Management and spin doctors are in denial over the unpopular changes to the Victorian College of the Arts, writes Scott Dawkins.
Melbourne Uni Arts faculty anger at Dean’s re-appointment
Arts faculty staff at The University of Melbourne are in active revolt this morning after the man blamed for implementing widespread sackings and cost-cutting was re-appointed for a five year term as Dean.
leaked Was Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?
A damning series of internal documents obtained by Crikey reveals widespread anger from within Melbourne Uni’s law faculty over changes that would have seen professional staff sacked and replaced with senior bureaucrats.
University reform: yes — but what is it for?
Australian universities have completely lost their vocational or operational autonomy, and will continue to be wagged by the dog of economic and other concerns tangential to their traditional aims, says Matthew Sharpe.
New Dean cops the wrath of VCA students
The new Dean of the Victorian College of the Arts Southbank campus has been specifically brought in to help ram through the controversial “Melbourne model” curriculum changes.
Melbourne University’s ‘model’ provost departs
Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has resigned. What’s the story? asks one Crikey reader.
