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Govt's carrot-and-stick approach to uni merger (indaily.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by josephb@aussie.zone to c/adelaide@aussie.zone

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Treasurer Stephen Mullighan says that if the universities of Adelaide and South Australia don’t “voluntarily” agree to amalgamate they risk losing merger support funding while still facing a government-established inquiry to “find ways in which the universities can merge”.

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[–] josephb@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

How much Govt intervention should there be here? This sounds like a bit too much...

[–] Mylemming@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Gross

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know anything about this, as I'm from out of state and just saw this article from the Local feed. What's the 411 on this? From the article it seems like they initiated this themselves but now they might not want to anymore?

[–] Talie5in@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically, you hit the nail on this issue... they wanted it, it git backed, state gov approved and will help with the merger with some funding...

It then has just sat there and nothing is happening.

State Gov is now stamping feet for them to get a move on.

[–] aes 1 points 1 year ago

Universities are not monoliths, to me it seems like the desire for a merger was a top-down motivation (i.e. by top level management) that faced strong opposition bottom-up (staff and faculty).

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

I still don't understand why the merger is necessary Seems like an unnecessary consolidation and removal of competition.

the two unis are completely different in the way they approach reaching courses and the way they are perceived in the general public. Id go so far as to say they're somewhat incompatible.

Adelaide uni is more prestigious and old school in its ideals, has a bit more class clout to it and is better for people who learn well in that environment.

unisa is somewhat more new school - a bit more practical and modern its course design, material and teaching methods, while not being so deep in practicality as to step of TAFES toes.

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