Australia’s university vice-chancellors are among the highest-paid in the world. But do their generous salaries translate into good student outcomes? 🤔 The data shows, nope.
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otoh they’ll make very nourishing mulch.
jan 30, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
University degrees are highly overrated and expensive. You can get a $300,000 yearly income after 12 months induction in the private sector. But the income of a VC's shows why politicians are poorly paid and why academics are not enticed into politics.
jan 30, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
Our current system is deeply unfair, a Vice-Chancellor’s remuneration is nearly 15 times larger than the pay for an average worker and more than 84 times more than Youth Allowance, it’s time to fix it.
jan 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 35 15 • view
I don’t see any positive outcomes for any of the various participants in Australian university life, not just students. Looks like you are paying Ferrari wages for Holden performance, at the top.
jan 30, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
Syd Uni, Canberra Uni missing
jan 30, 2025, 7:00 am • 0 0 • view
Way below average !!!!! And highly paid!
jan 31, 2025, 9:15 am • 1 0 • view
Just trying to imagine what a version of this for university staff satisfaction would look like
jan 30, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
A predatory capitalist executive class responsible for impoverishing #Auspol renters with their greed While also destroying the tertiary education sector’s standards Education needs to be completely disconnected from immigration outcomes to reign in numbers, improve standards & student experience
jan 31, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Go to the article, hover over the dot.
jan 31, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
No Canberta unis?
jan 31, 2025, 11:36 am • 0 0 • view
I see an inverse correlation.
jan 30, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
👍🏼 to UNE from this online student!
jan 30, 2025, 1:14 am • 1 0 • view
Yep, my first alma mater. Plus has a fabulous campus.
jan 30, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
Pffft, no.
jan 30, 2025, 5:00 am • 0 0 • view
The Australia Institute seems to be assuming that the GOAL of university vice-chancellors is to create "good student outcomes"...? But in reality, isn't the goal of university vice-chancellors to maximise university funding by increasing revenue streams? #auspol
jan 30, 2025, 6:08 am • 1 0 • view
Nailed it.
jan 30, 2025, 6:59 am • 0 0 • view
I don't know the trend in the graph is very odd. All I see is a blob in the middle, some outliers at the edges and a trend line which has no indication of its confidence levels, how significant, or strong this negative correlation is, but he outliers on the lower left side indicate not so strong
jan 30, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
Plenty of research showing how 'student satisfaction' is a very very flawed measure - I used to joke we should just ask students 'Would you buy this product again, would you recommend it to a friend?' a brief sample of the research philarchive.org/rec/OTUSEO pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
jan 30, 2025, 2:24 am • 2 0 • view
I think the problem here is that 'student satisfaction' is about as meaningless a statistic as has ever been gathered. There does not seem to be anything about 'outcomes' either
jan 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, while student satisfaction is important, it has little to do with 'outcomes' (whatever these are, learning/career etc).
jan 30, 2025, 6:46 am • 0 0 • view
student satisfaction is influenced by many factors that have little to do with value. It really is a junk statistic As I used to joke in meetings, ask them "would you buy this product again, would you recommend it to a friend" because as far as I could tell that's really what the Uni wanted to know
jan 30, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
Where does UTAS sit on the plot?
jan 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 0 0 • view
Out of curiosity: do any of the employment contracts for VCs include student outcomes as a performance metric against which they're measured? Do we know?
jan 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 4 0 • view
I'd be very surprised if they did
jan 30, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Guessing not! Or if it is its under bonuses
jan 30, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view