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Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer

By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
Anna Clark, Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
Frank Bongiorno, President, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of History, Australian National University

Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.

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