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Being peripherally involved in an Australian university gives me some interesting insights.
It’s truly remarkable how badly the things are managed.
Partly that’s because they promote academics to senior roles without any management training or experience, and nobody notice the deficiencies because they all have them.
Partly it’s because such an organisation has no driving purpose other than to exist and get bigger.
Arguably they also care about climbing up the University rankings, although this seems to be the basis of their corporate bipolarity: rankings are based on research outcomes whereas revenue is based on educational deliverables.
Research and education aren’t really related and everyone simply refuses to acknowledge this.
Practically speaking their biggest problem is that their greatest product is well trained graduates. Great graduates depend upon a supply of great candidates and has very little to do with the training they get.
From an educational POV all the unis are good enough. Efforts to distinguish them from each other simply adds unnecessary costs.
From a market POV we simply have too much educational capacity in the tertiary sector. In a regulated market that is over supplied, it is practically impossible to differentiate oneself by excellence.
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