The South Australian and national economies will take years to return to full output and employment following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a University of Adelaide report.
The state’s anti-corruption commissioner has sensationally confirmed he is investigating University of Adelaide vice chancellor Peter Rathjen, who was given indefinite extraordinary leave this week less than 24 hours after the abrupt resignation of chancellor and former SA governor Kevin Scarce.
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.
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.