Julie Hare is an honorary senior fellow at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at The University of Melbourne. She is a former education editor at The Australian Financial Review, and has over 20 years’ experience as a writer, journalist and editor, including as the higher education editor of The Australian.
This morning, Dr Allen received a fulsome apology, not from Bishop, but from ANU. “The university accepts that it has failed Dr. Allen, and that these failings have caused her considerable harm. The university unreservedly apologizes to Dr. Allen for all of its failings and the harm it has caused her,” it reads.
ANU's council has signed a "voluntary" agreement with the regulator about how Julie Bishop's successor will be chosen. It doesn't reflect well on the council.
Fixing the atrocious Job Ready Graduates scheme to make it fairer is not as hard as Jason Clare would have us believe.
