Vice-chancellor

The turmoil culminated in the departure of Professor Bell last year and then Mears Bishop this year.

The regulator was also harsh on the way the Vice-Chancellor's performance was assessed.

It said that the evaluation of Professor Bell's performance as Vice-Chancellor was based on the Vice-Chancellor's self-assessment and and the subsequent agreement of the Remuneration Committee.

The way the ANU was run was worse than bad, according to Dr. Lachlan Klohesi, Assistant Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union.

These findings must lead to significant reforms to the ANU Act, Dr. Klohesi said.

The government had argued the merger was a once-in-a-generation opportunity, an opportunity they saw to benefit financially, but not academically.

And it was not supported by, it says here, not supported by Murdoch and the Vice-Chancellor, criticize the report, et cetera, et cetera.

The West Australian government continues to be taken in by this nonsense.

It's extraordinary.

At Senate estimates, the ABC wouldn't hear of it to announce the number of people who earn more than $300,000.

I think the average voter would... support even more strongly Siegel's recommendations if they had an understanding of how completely out of touch the ABC and the Vice-Chancellors are.

There's a scandal at the moment with the ABC about them producing a totally one-sided thing attacking Israelis in Thailand.

No other nationality, no Russians over there, no Australians involved in sex crimes, only Israelis.

Welcome to another episode of the Nottingham Business School's Business Leaders podcast with me, Mike Sassi.

Professor Dave Petley is Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University, one of Britain's largest and most successful modern universities.

He joined NTU almost a year ago in December 2025, following four years as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull.

But before he began his career as a university executive leader, Professor Petley had already established a career as an academic leader.

He is an internationally recognised expert in landslides, earthquakes and natural hazards and he has spent much of his academic career researching why apparently stable environments can suddenly become dangerously unstable.

And we do lots of other things too, but the core purpose in our founding documents is about that academic mission.

So making myself think like an academic is a really good thing to do.

Do you feel you need to maintain your academic credentials to give you credibility in your current role as Vice-Chancellor?

I was talking to someone about this morning.

When I started Campus Review and didn't know anything, I would have pretty well every Vice-Chancellor's phone number in my phone and...

We would talk and we would write about individual universities and what they were going through at the time.

Now it's risen to basically writing about the group of eights because they're the ones that attract the media attention over international students and et cetera, et cetera.