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Labor senator Tony Sheldon will seek the support of a Senate committee to establish an inquiry into university governance today. He said it should “urgently examine” issues in the embattled sector including wage theft, widespread casualisation and the hefty pay packets of vice chancellors.
Sheldon, who chairs the Senate education and employment committee, said the move came in light of “continued governance scandals in the higher education sector”.
University vice chancellors have questions to answer about the extraordinary range of governance issues that have arisen on their watch.
There’s no other job in Australia where you can be paid so exorbitantly while performing so badly, with seemingly no consequences or accountability for the impact on university staff and students. It’s clear the Liberals’ and Nationals’ governance framework is failing, which is why the Albanese government is taking swift action to rein in [the] sector.
