A $20 million gift from the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation will help fund the venture,making the philanthropists the biggest named donors in the university’s history.
What’s needed now is stability,consolidation and good management.
New Sydney University vice-chancellor Mark Scott once labelled the ATAR a “straitjacket around our kids”. Now many in the school sector want him to do something about it.
Sydney University’s choice of Mark Scott as vice-chancellor is bold. But it could be exactly what the sector needs
Mark Scott will leave the NSW Department of Education to become vice-chancellor of Sydney University,despite his lack of academic background.
The NSW Department of Education chief also said a new south-west Sydney selective school would be built in Leppington.
He isn’t exactly the leader from central casting,but this ABC lifer,whose first role was collecting dirty tea towels,could be just the kind of down-to-earth bloke the public broadcaster needs right now.
Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott said it would be a while before regular calendar events such as assemblies,excursions and school sport resumed.
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Mr Millett spent 20 years at the Herald,holding roles as Canberra bureau chief,Tokyo correspondent and the paper's deputy editor.