The man Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman unilaterally picked to run the uni’s new London campus, Andy Bridges, has inexplicably left the role after less than a year, with Mr Bowman now hiring another mate from Far North Queensland and her wedding singer husband with public funds to lead the university’s development of the same campus, raising conflict of interest concerns.
It was revealed late last week that Mr Bowman had personally called his friend and current Central Queensland University vice-president Jodie Duignan-George asking her to run CDU’s fledgling London campus, without publicly advertising the role.
Dear CDU Executives!
The Crap Graduates You Churn Out annually are embarrassing in the workplace.
What exactly are you teaching them?
It is a sin that University students can use the garbage units you call education to get exemptions from real Universities like Monash, Australian National University or the University of Sydney!
Thank heavens its a visa factory or you would be bankrupt!
Mark
Well, we had jobs for the boys with Murphy, it’s only fair we have jobs for the girls with Bowman to even things up.
Very progressive!
Gee – What a surprise? What brilliant leadership!
All previous Vice Chancellors have done this. It’s nothing new, jobs for mates and a lot of blow ins that turn the place upside down and then blow back out. But re this recruitment, head hunting is not unusual when you are looking for highly skilled people, that’s nothing new either. The question is …why create a ‘campus’ in London? That’s the crazy wasteful part. CDU has tried creating campuses outside NT and that have failed and been super costly. Poor decision making at the top has gone on for decades. CDU need to focus on being a niche educational facility catering for the Indigenous, Tropical and Desert knowledges and attract overseas students for this. VET needs huge improvements in delivery and in supporting skilled lecturers. That appears not to be the case in many courses.