The university watchdog has detailed a breakdown in trust and dysfunction within the Australian National University’s governing council, in previously unpublished reasons for imposing unprecedented conditions on the battered institution.
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency found minutes from council meetings showed there was insufficient debate and discussion over the controversial Renew ANU cost-cutting plan, which was abandoned after backlash from students and staff, and that several unnamed council members breached confidentiality requirements.
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