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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.
Notes on Adelaide
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.
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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.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, Premier Steven Marshall takes ministerial control of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site’s redevelopment and the University of Adelaide suffers a global hit thanks to a single, misleading photo.
Flinders University Vice-Chancellor Colin Stirling says he won’t be joining discussions about the historic proposed merger of the state’s two largest universities and that his institution would be happy to claim the title of “South Australia’s oldest university” if it goes ahead.
The former South Australian Senator who says he first proposed merging the state’s universities concedes a new South Australian super-university would have a lower international ranking than the University of Adelaide does now – but argues it will be far better off in the long run.
The University of Adelaide and UniSA have announced historic talks to merge into a single university which they claim could be immediately placed within the world’s top 100 universities.
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