Bloated universities must trim fat to perform better - The Australian

IN the forest of reforms that are aimed at boosting the nation's economic efficiency, one of the biggest and lowest-hanging pieces of fruit remains unpicked: emancipation of higher education from the shackles of bureaucracy.

Australian universities are bloated with superfluous staff that thwart lecturers' ability to teach and suck up funds that would be better spent on research. They are riddled with inefficiencies and perverse incentives that hobble their ability to produce rounded, competent graduates.