Blame the consultants? The higher education sector and the consulting industry in Australia
Consulting firms are on the nose. Four inquiries into university governance have landed on them, the sector spends an estimated $1.8 billion a year, and a former consultant taking a senior university job is now enough to provoke an FoI request or a media inquiry.
In the first episode of Ed Nauseam, recorded at Parliament House in the Innovation Aus studio, Julie Hare and Ant Bagshaw disagree productively about why. Julie's case is about work that doesn't understand universities, consultation decided in advance, and governing bodies that won't open the books. Ant's is that blame has been…
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