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When the vice-chancellors of Australiaâs top universities get together, the sectorâs newest, Mark Scott, will not have a PhD, a Nobel Prize or pioneering research to add to their pile of scholarly achievements. But he will have something they donât.
Itâs something they need. Mr Scott, the NSW Department of Education secretary, has experience in managing and even strengthening an independent yet government-funded organisation thatâs deeply disliked and frequently dumped upon by many Coalition MPs.
He ran the ABC.
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Relations between universities and the government have been strained in the past few years. Universities missed out on JobKeeper payments over COVID, even though their international fee revenue â used to fund research â was hit hard by the border closures forced by COVID-19.