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Calls for UQ transparency heighten
As a scandal that eventually cost him his vice-chancellery at the University of Queensland was unfolding in the national media, Professor Paul Greenfield was speaking in south-east Asia on the growing importance of institutional reputation in higher education.
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But this would require other universities to also be more transparent and …. boom. The world will end… or at least all the nepotism, creative accounting and expedition solutions that allow us to function in an over-regulated, managerial, economically rational world…
While the freedom to “get things done” also opens the door to “do things that should not be done”…. I think its essential that we retain some of the freedom that goes with not telling everyone. Ethical standards, trust and the fear of the occasional review should be enough to keep most of the parasites in line.
The problem with transparency is that most people are happy to apply it to others… its damn hard to exist in an imperfect world and have to be held to perfect standards… it just adds to the cost of compliance and adds layers of management and oversight to even the simplest process.
The compromise is to trust people to keep their hands out of the cookie jar and back that up with random re-enforcement via random audits with teeth.