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Professor Genevieve Bell embarked on a major cost-saving plan and restructure at Australian National University last year.

Leaked consulting firm slide deck gives hints on ANU job cuts

A secret document from Nous Group, which has been hired by ANU to push through job cuts, was left behind in a staff lunchroom exposing restructure plans.

  • Julie Hare
Professor Genevieve Bell’s swingeing cuts to ANU are under way.

ANU budget cuts mean fewer courses and crowded tutorials

At one humanities school within the university, the budget for casual and sessional staff had been reduced by about two-thirds.

  • Julie Hare

January

Professor Genevieve Bell told a parliamentary inquiry that seemingly antisemitic gestures “had not happened”.

Acts of hate or innocent gestures? What happened at the ANU student meeting

There are conflicting versions of events whether students at an ANU student union meeting performed acts of hate or innocent gestures.

  • Julie Hare
Hannah Forsyth, is an historian who has written a book on the history of the modern australian university.

Is a university degree still worth it?

The pay premium for graduates is on the decline, while the sector is a mess and academics are asking whether we have reached “peak university”.

  • Julie Hare
Professor Genevieve Bell told a hearing into antisemitism that she empathised with a student who publicly supported Hamas.

‘Not a high bar to set’: MPs call on Bell to explain ANU Nazi gestures

ANU vice chancellor Genevieve Bell’s performance at a hearing on antisemitism has many questioning why she provided such bewildering answers.

  • Julie Hare
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Professor Genevieve Bell giving evidence at a public hearing on antisemitism on campuses.

Bell says Nazi gestures didn’t happen, leaving Burns speechless

ANU boss Genevieve Bell told a hearing into antisemitism on campuses two deeply hurtful gestures captured on video had not taken place.

  • Julie Hare
Zoe Hawkins, Johanna Weaver and Sunita Kumar are leaving ANU to launch their own tech policy think tank, the Tech Policy Design Centre.

New think tank urges Albanese to stand up to Trump’s big tech buddies

The prime minister must go head-to-head with American social media giants over plans to regulate them more heavily, the Tech Policy Design Institute says.

  • Tess Bennett
ANU chancellor Julie Bishop and vice chancellor Professor Genevieve Bell.

No mention of Bell’s Intel job in key ANU council meeting minutes

The minutes of a meeting to endorse Genevieve Bell as the next head of ANU appear to undermine the claim her role with Intel was “highlighted”.

  • Julie Hare
Julie Bishop says ANU and its council knew about and celebrated the paid job with Intel by vice chancellor Genevieve Bell.

Bishop doubles down on who knew what about VC’s Intel gig

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop and her pro chancellor, former KPMG chairwoman Alison Kitchen, have downplayed outrage over university chief Genevieve Bell’s paid job with global tech giant Intel.

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Sarah Henderson says education minister Jason Clare is dodging his responsibilities over university governance.

Go harder on double-dipping uni bosses: Henderson

The opposition says Education Minister Jason Clare is missing in action as vice chancellors collect payments from outside sources on top of their university salaries.

  • Julie Hare
Julie Bishop and Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell.

Bishop declares responsibility for Bell’s Intel role, rebukes council

ANU chancellor Julie Bishop says she was responsible for negotiating Genevieve Bell’s salary package in full knowledge of her second job with Intel.

  • Julie Hare

December 2024

There is disagreement over how much ANU council knew about Genevieve Bell’s ongoing paid work with Intel.

ANU council members say Bell’s second job was never mentioned

Members of ANU’s governing council dispute being told about the vice chancellor’s second job with global technology company Intel.

  • Julie Hare
ANU alumni have asked chancellor Julie Bishop to investigate why its vice chancellor could hold a second job.

ANU alumni call on Julie Bishop to stand vice chancellor aside

A leadership crisis at Australian National University isn’t going away after a group of concerned alumni have called for an investigation and audit.

  • Julie Hare
ANU vice chancellor Genevieve Bell and opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson.

ANU boss ‘should repay $1.1m salary’ while double-dipping with Intel

Opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Henderson says questions need to be answered over how a vice chancellor could hold a second job with a foreign company.

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Genevieve Bell in 2014 when she was being lauded in the New York Times as a “company contrarian, an irritant in an industrial oyster shell”.

How Genevieve Bell went from rock star to under siege

The Australian National University boss is pushing ahead with a massive restructure, and that is causing headaches for everyone.

  • Julie Hare
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ANU head Genevieve Bell has been collecting two salaries since 2017.

ANU leader ‘double-dipped’ with $1.1m salary and big tech job

Genevieve Bell, who asked staff to take a 2.5 per cent pay cut, has also been on Intel’s payroll since she arrived at ANU in 2017.

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ANU staff say they have lost confidence in vice chancellor Genevieve Bell.

ANU leaders berate staff over leaks, voice support for Bell

Senior executives at ANU have berated staff for leaking confidential information and say revelations have painted a false picture of the university’s culture.

  • Julie Hare
Australian National University vice chancellor Genevieve Bell.

ANU deans hauled in for ‘change management’ meetings

Three of the Australian National University’s seven college leaders were summoned to meetings this week where they were told the governing council had lost confidence in them.

  • Julie Hare
Amid a major restructure at ANU, senior staff say there is a culture of fear.

I will ‘hunt you down’: ANU staff rebel at its culture of fear

University staff say they feel demoralised by Genevieve Bell’s leadership, calling her proposed overhaul “a corporate-style raid of a national institution”.

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  • Julie Hare

November 2024

Third-year UOW bachelor of engineering student Minh Phuc Nguyen grew up in Vietnam and has benefited from the Illawarra Friends of International Students, which holds twice-weekly English conversation groups.

How these unis help overcome student disadvantage

The University of Wollongong is the top ranked university in the Equity category in this year’s The Australian Financial Review Best Universities Ranking.

  • Christopher Niesche

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