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Harlene Hayne was that rare beast whose entire career was spent in a single institution, rising from junior lecturer to vice-chancellor over a 30-year period.
And after a decade in the top job, her intention was to retire to a beach somewhere pretty, chill out and kick back.
Then COVID-19 hit and her plan went out the door.
âCOVID really tested the mettle of what we could do,â Professor Hayne said. âI thought this was a good thing; to be a little bit bold, a little bit risky and be constantly in problem-solving mode.
Harlene Hayne became vice-chancellor of Curtin University in April.Â
“You were meant to CUT support staff, not double them you dingus” Harlene Hayne, probably
The University initiative which cut 160 support staff jobs for “efficiency” has led to the hiring of at least 170 full-time equivalent staff to replace them.
The Support Services Review (SSR) was implemented by then Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne, and basically involved yeeting many services previously handled within departments into centralised, university-wide teams. The business case for the review claimed that these job losses, and the freed-up office space, would save the Uni $15 million a year. However, an Official Information Act request from Critic Te Arohi shows that admin staff numbers have actually increased since the SSR was implemented.
1.Bill and Bill are holograms
2.There is a specialist Ghostbusters division of Campus Watch, which is why there have been no ghosts on campus since 2007
3.Archway looks fucked because it’s a UFO that crashed into campus, and the government covered it up by inventing brutalist architecture
4.There was never a third floor to the science library
5.The University has teamed up with advertising companies so that we drink too much and fail more classes so that we stay at Uni for longer
6.If you press the button on the drinking fountains to the beat of ‘Waisake Naholo’ three times, they dispense Speights
Philip Matthews05:00, May 05 2021
RNZ
Author Lynley Hood pays tribute to Peter Ellis, whom she believes did not offend against children at the Christchurch Civic Creche. (First published September 4, 2019)
THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of
The
The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. “Peter Ellis, the childcare worker at the centre of Christchurch’s most notorious case of child molestation, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison for the repeated sexual abuse of children in his care,”
The Press reported on June 23, 1993. Ellis had been found guilty two weeks earlier of 16 charges out of the 25 put to the jury, after an investigation and trial that divided Christchurch between those who believed in Ellis’ guilt and others who felt that a moral panic had swept through the city.
It’s August 2018. You’re in Year 13. You’re covered in pimples, you don’t know how to blowdry your hair, and your fashion sense is what can only be described as preppy-grunge. Your on-and-off high school girlfriend has just broken up with you because you had a Skype call with