Outgoing Charles Darwin University vice-chancellor Scott Bowman will remain in his position until the end of April on ‘gardening leave’ the university has confirmed, which will see him paid in the vicinity of $125,000 over that time, but the university would not say what type of payout he may receive after signing a five year contract extension in late November that was worth as much as $3.5 million.
Mr Bowman’s predecessor Simon Maddocks was paid his wage, plus roughly $600,000 in entitlements and termination payments in the year he left the role unexpectedly.
As a paying customer, The uni has deteriorated under his watch.
The Tafe fiasco is what the public have heard about. Their where many in-house scandals and shocking wastes of CDU monies eg.,$1 million contract to KPMG that the academic boffins steering the ship did not know about until the new CFO stepped in from the previous, absconded , CFO
The governance of the university, under the responsibility of the University Council, appears to have no responsibilty to students, staff or the taxpayer. As a self- perpetuating ‘Club’ on taxpayer largesse, its main loyalties appear to be to the members of the ‘Club’.
Bad luck if you are a student or hard-working member of staff, or a tax-payer!
All this has been laid bare recently by Senate enquiries – but who in the Council would have the time or interest to search for improvement in CDU governance, even though CDU problems are escalating rapidly?
In addition, standout problems identified by parliamentary enquiries into Council governance recently, have been the excessive salaries and perks paid to Vice Chancellors and the lack of Council transparency and accountability around such decisions Still, things like this probably take a while to reach those in authority in Darwin, to the further detriment of CDU.
I mean, Darwin is different! The rest of Australia pays!
Clear misconduct in public office, Darwin is a gulag run by NTG corrupt public servants. Communism here we come.