Former vice-chancellor Professor Peter Rathjen engaged in “entirely inappropriate” conduct at a work function and treated two women employed by the University of Adelaide with “egregious disrespect”, an investigation has found. The former head of the university stepped down from ...
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Australia’s oldest university college, version 2.0?
The oldest university college in Australia is also one consistently rocked by scandal. St Paul's at USYD, a 200 resident, 'liberal Anglican' all-male establishment suffered its latest public indignity in May this year, when the following post appeared on a ‘St ...
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On-campus sexual assault and harassment was one of the biggest news stories of the year. Yet only students were the focus of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)'s inquiry and report on this subject. This doesn't mean university staff are immune to this phenomenon. Indeed, the Weinstein scandal has shifted ...
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