{"id":7082,"date":"2013-03-19T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:52:25","slug":"reform-universities-by-cutting-their-bureaucracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/reform-universities-by-cutting-their-bureaucracies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform universities by cutting their bureaucracies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insight into the growth of bureaucracy in universities from The Conversation:<\/p>\n

In earlier times, Oxford dons received all tuition revenue from their students and it\u2019s been suggested that they paid between 15% and 20% for their rooms and administration. Subsequent central collection of tuition fees removed incentives for teachers to teach and led to the rise of the university bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

Today, the bureaucracy is very large in Australian universities and only one third of university spending is allocated to academic salaries.<\/p>\n

Across all the universities in Australia, the average proportion of full-time non-academic staff is 55%……….Australia is not alone as data for the United Kingdom shows a similar staffing profile with 48% classed as academics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a fine example of Parkinson’s Law, first proposed by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in a light-hearted essay in The Economist in 1955<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Parkinson cited the British Colonial Office as an example: the number of staff continued to grow even when Britain had divested itself of most of its colonies. He explained the growth as due to two factors in a bureaucracy:<\/p>\n

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  1. An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals; and<\/li>\n
  2. Officials make work for each other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    He noted that bureaucracies tended to grow by between 5% and 7% a year “irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done” — even if the amount of work is declining.<\/p>\n

    Read more at Reform Australian universities by cutting their bureaucracies <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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