ICAC to probe allegations against University of Wollongong executives
By Kelly Fuller and Penny Burfitt

The anti-corruption commission is to examine allegations about recruitment and the employment of a consultancy firm against Chancellor Michael Still and other members of the university's executive.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/icac-to-investigate-university-of-wollongong-allegations/106750100

#Universities #AntiCorruptionAgencies #Consultants #KellyFuller #PennyBurfitt

One of the great puzzles of UK politics is why a Govt. that leaps to 'rescue' the Steel sector, or move to reorganise the railways, cares so little about the plight of the University sector.

Both as an 'exporter' (via foreign students' fee income) & delivering demonstrable public good (providing education to a large cohort of future workers & innovators), surely we'd expect the Govt. to be focussed on averting the sector's growing crisis.... but no, its not.

Odd isn't it?

#universities

https://literaryreview.co.uk/pass-the-cherries

I'd like to read this, as it would help me better understand how Thatcherism poisoned the culture of the UK.

Unlike the reviewer, I do think that a switch in dons' priorities from royal commissions and the BBC to spinning out companies and podcasting signifies not just a change but a decline. That "the continued investment of at least some dons in political life" is illustrated by the involvement of Cambridge authoritarian right theologian James Orr in Reform UK shows how steep this decline has been.

#UKCulture #History #IntellectualHistory #Universities #Oxbridge #ColinKidd #TwilightOfTheDons