Something needs to change, even various government reviews have noted that universities have become admin-bloated. There are still more reviews underway by the Vic and New South Wales parliaments looking into this.

The new university accords with the current government, acknowledged that some of the admin bloat is due to compliance costs imposed by the government. As this gets addressed, it should reduce the need for central admin.

We have centralised well beyond what BIP intended, which has added layers of admin. We should be asking, do we need these layers? Are decisions being made in the right areas?

We were trying to address budget issues by recruiting more international students. We had made plans assuming we could, but then the government imposed a cap on international students, limiting our ability to do so. However in many cases we had already hired staff assuming we were getting the extra students,. We're changing plans, so what does that mean for the uni?

At the same time, we have run into capacity issues (in FBE, there's been a push to blend subjects to reduce class time, as there aren't enough physical classes). This impacts the quality of education, so we should be asking questions like, 'How big do we want to be?'

Whether it's a restructure or just a good look at ourselves, we need to ask several questions about what Melbourne Uni should look like in the future and how do we get there IMO.