It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries
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Yeah, this stinks. I was "restructured" out of a uni during a cost cutting exercise where the VC was on a salary just shy of a million. And he's not the highest paid.
jul 21, 2025, 11:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Quelle surprise.
jul 22, 2025, 1:05 am • 5 0 • view
Almost but quite
jul 22, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
The increasing divide between uni admin & researchers/academics has been very noticeable over the last 25 years. It used to be that a senior researcher/academic could quite easily walk into the vice chancellery & discuss ideas with the VC or a DVC. That access has been cut by many layers of admin.
aug 9, 2025, 10:45 am • 4 0 • view
It's OK to spend 5 million on consultants when you say you need to cut 100 million for reasons
jul 22, 2025, 1:08 am • 3 1 • view
And isn’t the whiff of Woodside a little strong at Monash, Curtin?
aug 27, 2025, 10:19 am • 0 0 • view
So inappropriate! And their reasons for this rort are just BS. Not good enough!
jul 22, 2025, 8:06 am • 1 1 • view
$800000 for refurb of an office in Perth for Julie Bishop. How many staff salaries would that alone pay?
aug 27, 2025, 10:23 am • 0 0 • view
As if managed equity has gotten into the university game.
jul 22, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
“My ability to count beans makes me the perfect candidate to run an important institution that relies upon creativity, understanding and a wholehearted commitment to learning, education and contributing to the country’s cultural growth….”
jul 22, 2025, 6:41 am • 2 1 • view
It's time university executive salaries are reduced to a common-sense level. Proportionally, what they were paid 30 years ago. Paying VCs as if they are running a large profitable corporation is ridiculous. Especially Chancellor, which is largely a ceremonial role. /1
jul 22, 2025, 3:12 am • 11 1 • view
Most VCs are paid more than the PM. Do they have a greater responsibility than he does? NO. Huge salaries obviously attract the wrong sort of people. Those largely interested in money and prestige, not the institution under their care.
jul 22, 2025, 3:12 am • 9 1 • view
Um, yes. Of equal importance is the focus on income. I'm nostalgic for the days when universities existed to actually educate people.
jul 22, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, it kind'a does.
jul 22, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
since time began...
jul 22, 2025, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
No, it is much worse over the last 30 years since ‘economic rationalism’ became the goal of executives and included huge wage rises and a power grab.
jul 22, 2025, 3:07 am • 2 1 • view
Cancer. The US has terminal cancer. The tumors are eating us.
jul 22, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
“USSC is not just involved in high-level policy setting with various ANU centres, it regularly stages closed-door US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue attended by military leaders, government officials, diplomats and researchers from both nations.” Bishop? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
aug 9, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 1 • view
“USSC not just involved in high-level policy setting but in implementation. Together with various Australian National University centres, it regularly stages closed-door US-Australia Indo-Pacific Deterrence Dialogue attended by military leaders, govt officials, diplomats, researchers both nations.”
aug 9, 2025, 1:05 am • 1 0 • view
“pales in comparison debasement of policy formulation highest level. 2022, Defence Minister Richard Marles engineered structures which sideline Defence dept on strategic policy development, critical instrument for setting priorities within almost $60 billion of Australian taxpayer’s money annually.”
aug 9, 2025, 1:02 am • 1 0 • view
Julie Bishop, chancellor ANU. She was Foreign Affairs Minister LNP decade in federal government. Does ANU have any links to Israel weapons/defence research? region.com.au/bishop-shoul...
aug 9, 2025, 12:53 am • 2 0 • view
No problem has ever been solved by paying managers more.
aug 9, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
There is always the problem of the second holiday home
aug 9, 2025, 11:50 pm • 1 0 • view
#richpeoplesproblems
aug 10, 2025, 12:10 am • 0 0 • view
Cuts for thee but not for me.
jul 22, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. And makes me spitting mad. Sack the lot of them and keep the teaching and research staff, l say
jul 21, 2025, 11:00 pm • 5 1 • view
The answer to this is, obviously, more consultants
jul 21, 2025, 11:36 pm • 7 0 • view
Only consultants have the nous to unravel this complex problem
jul 21, 2025, 11:38 pm • 12 0 • view
I see what you did there...
jul 21, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Never! www.woroni.com.au/news/foi-rel...
aug 9, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
Never happened www.afr.com/work-and-car...
aug 9, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
Well said. Mind you, show me a "not for profit" and I'll show you an organisation being run for the benefit of these types.
aug 27, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Just modern managerialism, since the 1970s or so. Doesn't matter if it's private, public, military, whatever. Get up the ranks and rape'n'pillage the thing for all it's worth! The fuck off when it all goes to custard and repeat somewhere else.
jul 22, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Naturally one of the 4 Parasites @kpmgaustralia.bsky.social is providing 'advice'. When will folks understand these overpriced PowerPoint experts have little to no sector specific knowledge or expertise. Their recommendations rarely exclude cutting staff.
jul 22, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 0 • view
"Almost as though..."? 😆 They have no passion for learning or research, they milk local and foreign students for fees without worthwhile content in teaching or courses. Skilled tradie shortage from killing off TAFE, universities unrealistically expected to fill the gap with job-ready graduates.
aug 28, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
Universities used to be respected places of higher learning and research. Entitled modern administrators enjoy seven figure salaries, simply for being figureheads. In the meantime, staff and courses are cut, student fees and debt expand. A country which doesn't value education is doomed.
jul 22, 2025, 6:20 am • 5 2 • view
Virtual learning
jul 22, 2025, 6:43 am • 1 0 • view
And these people complain about paying tax and welfare payments but very happy to spend their "working" life exploiting government resources that they loudly despise.
aug 27, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Once again, the pursuit of wealth is ruthless and undermines all forms of goodness for goodness sake
jul 22, 2025, 12:40 am • 0 0 • view
Let’s hope at least that they convinced a few of the cream of US academia to come to Aus
jul 22, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 1 • view