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.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: a new record for newspaper discounting?
Things must be amiss in our nation’s capital, with word that The Canberra Times is being offered in a special deal for a worrying 80% discount off the normal cover price. Plus, what’s happening in Labor’s Federal NSW seats?
Ill will across Melbourne uni claims another victim
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.
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.
Has the great Indian student bubble burst?
Speculation that the flood of Indian students into Australian education institutions (not to mention the $2 billion they bring to the economy each year) is about to dry up has generated alarm in political and educational circles, writes Geoff Maslen.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Executive Remuneration
Crikey readers weigh in on how measuring the obscenity of executive remuneration, the danger of footpaths and the South Ossetian war between Georgia and Russia.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Women at war
Crikey readers debate Guy Rundle and his views on women on the front line. Plus, the ridiculous actions of question time and will VCA never dance again?
Left and right? Just the beginning of the complexities of student politics
How could hordes of bright-eyed Melbourne Uni students, with their liberal arts educations and asymmetrical haircuts, willingly sign their representation away to conservatives? They didn’t, writes student politician Chris Summers.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Nelson’s narcissistic attack
Crikey readers weigh in on Brendan Nelson’s accusations of Malcolm Turnbull as a narcissitic personality disorder sufferer, Ikea and their font changes and Melbourne Uni’s fundraising.
Melbourne Uni’s $265m slush fund won’t save job cuts
The University of Melbourne is under mounting pressure to explain recent job cuts after leaked internal documents uncovered a $265 million plan to line its coffers.
VCA uprising engulfs Glyn Davis
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glynn Davis has a problem on his hands as unrest grows at the Victorian College of Arts.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The First Dog complaint form letter
A Crikey reader helpfully compiles a generic First Dog on the Moon complaint letter, plus other readers on The Wilderness Society, Melbourne Uni, the Fairfax Digital Puzzle Administrator and more.
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.
The University of Melbourne gags VCA staff
The University of Melbourne has placed an unprecedented gag on Victorian College of the Arts staff members talking to the media, with Senior staff members currently locked in a battle with the University over reforms stemming from the introduction of the controversial Melbourne Model.
John Howard on the good, the bad and the well-read
In yesterday’s lecture on ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’ of Australia’s media, ex-PM John Howard warned of the importance of a “sceptical” media.
The University of Melbourne’s gender blindspot
The University of Melbourne has been denied a place on a Federal Government equal opportunity list designed to promote the advancement of women.
Davis: Cutting to keep Melbourne University sound
The University remains in the black, but must slow future increases in spending to ensure its long-term viability is not compromised, writes Glyn Davis, the University’s Vice Chancellor, in an email to staff.
Melbourne University’s ‘model’ provost departs
Melbourne University provost Peter McPhee has resigned. What’s the story? asks one Crikey reader.
Rupert’s minions and the gentle art of self censorship
It seems Bruce Dover’s book Rupert’s Adventures in China won’t be reviewed in the mogul’s local newspapers, writes Margaret Simons.
Tips and rumours
NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor entertained 90 guests, mainly developers, at the Art Gallery of NSW the other evening. Fainting with greed, the guests staggered out of their limousines to have Christmas drinks with the State’s planning supremo. Questions being asked around town are: who paid for the lavish reception and did Sartor, who is […]
We have a decade, tops, to save the planet
A new Australian study released just days before the fourth IPCC report contends that the evidence of global warming in the last 12 months has increased beyond anyone’s predictions. And taking into account these latest discoveries, we have 5- 10 years to mitigate the effects, but we have to start making big changes now.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Richard Pratt’s honorary Doctorate in Law from Melbourne Uni is a qualification that presumably gives him unusual insight into these thoughts from ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel on the operation of cartels, a ”form of theft … little different from classes of corporate crime that already attract criminal sentences”.
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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