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Adelaide University will defer cutting staff wages after reporting “better than expected” second semester enrolment figures, but it is still concerned by a 26 per cent drop in new international student enrolments – prompting its acting Vice-Chancellor to warn 200 jobs will go as the sector faces “tough times ahead”.
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The University of Adelaide paid disgraced former Vice-Chancellor Peter Rathjen more than $600,000 – including a $326,400 contract payout – after accepting and later paying out a compensation claim from a university staffer who resigned, with the Independent Commission Against Corruption finding that she was sexually harassed by Rathjen at work.
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The South Australian Government and universities have focused too much on building new medical research buildings and not enough on attracting skilled researchers, leading to a sharp decline in the state’s competitiveness winning major grants, the SA Productivity Commission has found.
UPDATED: The University of Adelaide paid disgraced former Vice-Chancellor Peter Rathjen more than $20,000 a week for four months – an estimated $300,000 – after it accepted a compensation claim from a university staffer over workplace sexual harassment.
One of the University of Adelaide’s chief executives who helped spearhead merger talks with cross-town rival the University of South Australia has resigned amid looming staff cuts.
University of Adelaide law students are providing free legal advice to people fighting Centrelink debts at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, after budget cuts forced the Welfare Rights Centre to close down in June.
The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Australia says the state is unlikely to boast a world-class tertiary institution without the greater scale that a merger would have provided.
