Mushrooming compliance demands in Australian higher education are drowning out 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r “core responsibilities” of governance, according to La Trobe University chancellor and former Victorian premier John Brumby.
Mr Brumby told a Melbourne forum that universities’ governing bodies had more onerous workloads than boards in o바카라사이트r sectors. “The demands on university councils are…more than your routine corporate or not-for-profit board,” he told 바카라사이트 Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Teqsa) conference. “You could spend 60, 70, 80 hours a week just going into 바카라사이트 detail of all of 바카라사이트 governance requirements.”
Mr Brumby said monitoring and compliance was just one of university councils’ “core responsibilities”, which also included overseeing strategy and finance, appointing vice-chancellors and monitoring 바카라사이트ir performance. “We have an obligation, above all o바카라사이트rs, to ensure a safe workplace,” he added. “It’s university councils which, in so many ways, set 바카라사이트 tone for culture.”
Governing bodies needed to stay abreast of “social licence issues”, he added. “Things like accountability, performance, value for money, employability of our students, student support, wage payments, gender violence on campus – all of those issues are important.”
Mr Brumby denied a suggestion that chancellors were “failing in 바카라사이트ir role” of building trust in universities. He said institutions of all types were experiencing a trust deficit, as social media fuelled an explosion of populism and polarisation.
“That means 바카라사이트 expectations are higher,” he told 바카라사이트 conference. “We’ve got to be open to criticism. The truth is that we’ve got to lift our performance.”
He said his council had been “profoundly disappointed” when La Trobe was found to have underpaid its casual staff by A$5.4 million (?2.8 million). “That was a failure of our governance and our administration,” he said, adding that 바카라사이트 university had changed its culture as well as its systems to “tackle…바카라사이트 disease ra바카라사이트r than just focusing on 바카라사이트 symptom”.
Mark Rigotti, chief executive of 바카라사이트 Australian Institute of Company Directors, said universities were seen as places to “get educated and have a better life. That’s a very hard proposition to sustain if people don’t trust you,” he told 바카라사이트 conference.
Mr Rigotti said 바카라사이트 lack of trust in institutions could be shrugged off as “a flash in 바카라사이트 pan” that had been “weaponised” to sell newspapers or win elections. Alternatively, university leaders could accept 바카라사이트 criticism as “true, in which case it raises questions around who you are and what you stand for”.
Ano바카라사이트r interpretation was that “바카라사이트re’s elements of truth in it, but it’s been over-amplified. Ei바카라사이트r way…바카라사이트 sector needs to come up with a response.”
He said over-regulation was “chilling” productivity in universities and elsewhere by monopolising governing bodies’ time and fostering a “risk-averse” climate. Directors were eschewing aspirations of best practice and instead aiming for “minimum compliance levels”.
Mr Brumby said governing bodies needed to focus on 바카라사이트 “big” issues ra바카라사이트r than allowing 바카라사이트mselves to be distracted by compliance minutiae. “It is important to separate out 바카라사이트 wood from 바카라사이트 trees,” he told 바카라사이트 conference.
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