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An Adelaide City councillor says “expansionist” and “empire-driven” universities are rapidly buying up property across the CBD, with their rates exemptions costing the council $7.8 million in lost income last financial year alone.
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Former Premier Jay Weatherill and former Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne have signed on to Uni SA’s Business School to deliver business and management education to MBA students.
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South Australia’s three major universities will collaborate with France’s central scientific agency and the company chosen to design Australia’s $52 billion Future Submarines to establish a joint defence research laboratory in Adelaide, InDaily can reveal.
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.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, recent revelations show that South Australia’s favourite political punching bag of recent years may have been too harshly treated, and the universities go dark after their merger plans fall apart.
UPDATED | The proposal to create a super-university in SA has been killed off after the University of South Australia decided it was not in its interests to merge with the University of Adelaide.
A proposal to merge UniSA and the University of Adelaide is based on flimsy evidence, writes Richard Blandy, who argues that experience across the world shows that size is not connected to greatness in higher education and research.
