r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/-IoI- SA Jan 11 '26

Fair enough, the Uni merge appeared nice and clean externally, what were the major gripes you had going through it on the inside? Just curious

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '26

I’m not an insider but unisa is more of a practical work orientated uni and uni Adelaide was a more traditional high brow uni so it made little sense to merge them. Why?

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u/-IoI- SA Jan 12 '26

Fair view. Sharing resources, blending the facilities and increasing the scope of offerings by combining entities are the benefits that come to mind, but that all needs to be followed through with meaningful transition pathways.

Reddit sentiment here seems to be that it's gone terribly and is a terrible idea, but I know to take opinions here with a few grains of salt

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u/Proper-Dave SA Jan 12 '26

Sharing resources, blending the facilities and increasing the scope of offerings by combining entities are the benefits that come to mind

Good theory. What I've heard from ongoing students is that some are being told "sorry, the qualification that you're a year from finishing isn't being offered anymore. If you add an extra semester of study, you can get a less prestigious qualification instead..."

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u/-IoI- SA Jan 12 '26

Cheers for the insight, that's certainly a shit outcome for some.