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UOM Shows True Colours – Discussion Paper A Sham

webmaster — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:17:33 +0000

A screenshot of the VCAM.org.au site

Crikey.com have revealed the UoM have accidentally made live a new VCAM website which aggressively attacks all opinions other than their own, showing the UoM interest in “consulting” is ZERO.The content of the website is only days old (it references the Discussion Paper) and has numerous dollar figure missing (written in the text as “$XX”) showing the UoM writer was spinning arguments without even having the real data at hand.

This flies in the face of UoM assertions the “Discussion Paper” process will be independent and shows the administration’s true colours i.e. they are not interested in anybodies opinion other than their own, and are happy to make arguments without knowing the facts.

UoM’s recklessness still shocks.

You can read the crikey article here 09-11-26 Crikey

Crikey “University of Melbourne spinning themselves a lie on VCA”\

webmaster — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:06:22 +0000

Glyn Davis and PM Kevin Rudd

Save VCA campaigner and VCA Music Theatre Alumni Scott Dawkins corrects the UoM “correction”

See the article in full here 09-09-11 Crikey.pdf

Hear the 06/11/09 Glyn Davis / Jon Faine (mentioned in the Crikey article) here

84% of VCA Staff Vote No Confidence In Dean Sharman Pretty

webmaster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:02:50 +0000

Elizabeth Bare - Head of University Services

Crikey.com reveal Elizabeth Baré, the head of university services, will call time on her 20-year career at the institution, as controversy rages over her implementation of “responsible division management”.

Crikey

Crikey also reveal VCA staff survey showed 40% of VCA staff would quit their positions rather than deal with further rationalisation directives from new dean Sharman Pretty. At the same meeting, 84% per cent of staff expressed a vote of no-confidence in Pretty.

Articles can be found as follows:

Was Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?

Ill will across Melbourne uni claims another victim

UoM Law Dean Quits Over Melbourne Model and “Responsible Division Management” Staff Restructure

webmaster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:16:22 +0000

Professor James C. Hathaway Dean

From http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/was-melbourne-model-stoush-behind-the-law-deans-departure/

The departing dean of the University of Melbourne’s Law School, Professor James Hathaway, was at the centre of an ugly stoush over the implementation of the university’s controversial Melbourne Model just weeks before his resignation last Wednesday.

A damning series of internal documents, obtained by Crikey, reveals widespread anger from within the elite faculty over changes that would have seen up to four professional staff sacked and replaced with three senior bureaucrats, leading to a budget blowout and a “pyramid-like professional staff structure”.

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