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Universities are in trouble. But is Nous Group the answer? The business model of the consultant is sharp and sophisticated. They bought the sector 'benchmarking' data and use it to sell services. Griffith Uni even hired 4 exec staff from them. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities

Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking.

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The $3m ANU consulting contracts designed to ensure 'profit' began life just 17 days after new VC Geneveive Bell started. Was Council ever told the restructure plans were being designed in haste by a private firm? Council minutes don't suggest so. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Exclusive: The consultancy driving ANU cuts

As the ANU slashes costs to address its purportedly dire finances, documents seen by The Saturday Paper reveal it is paying a consultancy $3 million for a confidential strategy focused on profit growt...

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Some time ago Paula Macedo Weiss and I organized a year-long series of events around Brazilian counterculture after 1968, with a focus on "cinema marginal", the subversive, free-form response to the more stately "cinema novo" and the cinematic fold of Tropicalismo. Most of the events were recorded /

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🎊🎊🎊🎊 Celebrating Incomplete, best edited vol of 2024 AND 2025 at #SCMS25 awards!!!!!! Congrats CONGRATS @alixbeeston.bsky.social & @stefansolomon.bsky.social !! Such a privilege and joy to be a part of this project!! ❤️❤️

Alix Beeston@alixbeeston.bsky.social · last yr.

#Incomplete (@ucpress.bsky.social) wins the 2025 @scmstudies.bsky.social Award for Best Edited Collection!! And is accepted by a gorgeous gaggle of contributors - a fitting expression of the book's collective feminist ethos 💫💫💫 @stefansolomon.bsky.social #SCMS25