The stoush between staff and senior management at the University of Melbourne has claimed its second victim after the chief architect of the university’s controversial internal restructuring process announced her decision to stand aside.
Melbourne University
Young Liberals find their campus saviours: the ALP
Young Liberals could be ruling campus bully-pulpits for decades to come, this time in coalition with a reliable partner — the right wing of the ALP.
Tips and rumours: Did Della Bosca fall into a honey trap?
What Crikey’s tipsters are telling us today: Was John Della Bosca set up? … Westpac not cutting back on off-shoring … University of Melbourne’s unqualified tutors.
Tips and rumours: Royal bailout for Emirates?
Crikey’s readers are sending in tips from around the traps today: Has the Royal Family of Dubai bailed out Emirates? … Cloudstreet loses TV backing? … disgruntled University of Melbourne employee fights back.
Tips and rumours: Getting cross about canned crosswords
The SMH cancel their online crossword, was the Kyle and Jackie O lie detector segment pre-recorded? The Member for Leichhardt struggles for friends; and more from our team of tipsters.
VCA cuts an act of barbarism
The loss of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts will be a disaster for arts professions, says Barista.
VCA’s Puppetry course on the chopping block
The Victorian College of the Arts faces a deeply uncertain future as Melbourne University makes swinging cuts to courses and jobs there.
Questions hang over the VCA’s future
Job and budget cuts have prompted ongoing concerns for the future of programs and courses in the Victorian College of the Arts and Music.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey’s cardboard controversy
Crikey readers let us have it over yeterday’s cut-out-coffin editorial.
So what does Glyn Davis actually do?
Melbourne Uni’s Peter McPhee is retiring less than two years into his three year contract. Will vice-chancellor Glyn Davis resume at least some of McPhee’s duties? asks Erica Cervini.
The Grattan Institute: Centre for Ruddist Thinking
The $50 million Grattan Institute is about remake the think tank landscape in the PM’s image, writes Andrew Crook.
Garrett’s National Academy of Music line doesn’t sound right
The recent decision by the Arts Minister to close down The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in order to replace it by Australian Institute of Musical Performance (AIMP) is so nonsensical that it must be fishy, writes Lionel Kowal.
University branding: the bold and the derivative
Melbourne University started something with its pitch to “dream large”, writes Stephen Downes.
Is Monash Uni introducing the “Melbourne Model” by stealth?
Recently, Monash University announced that it will be relocating its law school from the main Clayton Campus to its smaller Caulfield Campus. But there’s more to the story than moving desks. Adam Schwab reports.
ALR will deal with Rupert book … as soon as it gets a copy
Following our story yesterday about the lack of reviews of Rupert’s Adventures in China in the Sun King’s local newspapers, the editor of the monthly Australian Literary Review supplement, has been in touch to say that the publishers, Penguin, haven’t sent him a copy! Margaret Simons writes.
Gerard Henderson: If I’m a liar, where’s the evidence?
According to Robert Manne in yesterday’s Crikey, I am a liar in a category of my own. This is a serious, professionally damaging allegation – but Professor Manne has not supported it with any evidence, writes Gerard Henderson.
Tips and rumours
The word about La Trobe is that Robert Manne will be one of the members of an “independent” review committee into the NT Emergency Legislation should Rudd win office. Exponents of this rumour point to Manne’s recent apologist piece in the Monthly, in which he is wholly uncritical of Labour’s endorsement of the legislation.
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Tips and rumours
Rivers of grog. Seems the NT CLP party were seen loading up their “rivers of grog” onto the plane on route to the Tiwi Islands restricted area by none other than the PM’s Northern Development Taskforce - will they come forward to make a police statement against the CLP MPs involved? Methinks not.
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The sad sidelining of indigenous history
The cancellation of indigenous history subjects at Melbourne University is part of a broader issue in which history perceived as “alternative” is not prioritized and therefore side-lined or omitted – to the detriment of a broad education for students and history in general at the university, writes Gabriella Haynes.
History whitewash at the University of Melbourne
The History Department at the University of Melbourne must be desperately hoping that John Howard’s election-driven sudden interest in Aboriginal children will keep media attention distracted from their own indigenous scandal.
