South Australia’s three universities sought a joint payroll tax waiver collectively worth almost $60 million from the Marshall Government as they sought to offset dramatic revenue shortfalls prompted by the coronavirus crisis, it has been revealed.
Lectures will remain online-only at the University of South Australia for the rest of 2020 in contrast to its rival campuses, which have flagged a return to face-to-face or “blended” learning within weeks.
EXCLUSIVE | An explosive email from the man appointed to run Steven Marshall’s Department of Premier and Cabinet lays bare the tense and terse relations between the universities of Adelaide and South Australia before their merger talks collapsed.
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.