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<\/p>\nAn internal University of Sydney report has eviscerated the institution over multiple levels of middle management, poor student support services and bureaucratic inefficiencies.<\/p>\n
Staff fear the discussion paper released last week marks the first step to make the case for job cuts, a move numerous cash-strapped NSW universities have taken this year.<\/p>\n
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Sydney University staff have questioned the number of managers. Credit: Steven Siewert<\/p>\n
While other universities have suffered an enrolment downturn, Sydney University has admitted an extra 10,000 international students<\/a> since 2019, who each pay up to $50,000 per year to study. It posted a $545 million surplus last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n The report said professional staff at the university had grown by 30 per cent to 5961 people between 2019 and 2024, outpacing the growth in students and academics over the same period.<\/p>\n \u201cThis increased investment has not, however, led to improvements in student or staff satisfaction with our professional service experience,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n The discussion paper reminded staff that the institution was among the worst in the country for student experience and placed last for student support services.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy are there so many managers?\u201d one staff member asked in feedback collected as part of the report. Another said: \u201cIt takes weeks to get a simple decision.\u201d<\/p>\n The report said half of all people who were \u201csupervisors\u201d oversaw four direct reports or fewer, while 19 per cent of supervisors had two or fewer direct reports.<\/p>\n Staff at the institution have been given \u201cthought starters\u201d and asked to respond to the issues raised in the report, which also says \u201cit is possible we will find adjustments to our staffing levels will be required\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An internal University of Sydney report has eviscerated the institution over multiple levels of middle management, poor student…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-371250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115530397571197196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}