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In an email to staff last week, Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott announced that the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Duncan Ivison would be stepping down…

On Wednesday, the University of Sydney notified student representative bodies SRC and SUPRA that they would not be reinstating the Converted WAM (CWAM) for…

Grade: A Sanagavarapu has so far chalked up some impressive achievements, advocating strongly for the defeat of Pip Pattison’s doomed 12-week semester plan and helping restore Medical Science Honours students to their labs after they were kicked out by management. Earlier in the semester, the free textbook scheme was well received. In committees, Sanagavarupu has hailed victories in clearer policy and shorter wait times in Student Appeals. He has also involved himself in campaigns around SLAM cuts and for stranded Indian international students. Sanagavarapu regularly submits his Honi repor...

Community sacrificed in USyd’s corporate ideal The impact of architecture and communications choices on the student/staff relationship. Photo credit: Georgia Mantle May 10, 2021 Most weeks, as barely more than a dozen scrawny students gather outside Fisher Library to hear speeches against the latest malady to hit higher education, down the extreme opposite end of Eastern Avenue, the F23 Administration Building goes into lockdown, completely halting access to that foreboding monument to management.  The University’s reflex to lock itself away in its Camperdown ke...

12 week semesters overwhelmingly defeated The margin of defeat was significantly larger than in 2017 and 2020. Photo: Aman Kapoor The proposal to adopt 12 week semesters was overwhelmingly defeated at today’s Academic Board meeting.  The 12 week model was defeated by 69 votes to 10. The alternative 12+1 week model — which would have seen week 13 turned into a revision week — was defeated by a margin of 55 to 15. As a result, the current 13 week calendar will remain. It is the third time in four years that the Academic Board has voted against 12 week semesters....