The team implementing the University of Sydney Operating Model is set for another big-year, with its control board set to meet monthly from Wednesday for the year. For lesser beings who want to know what the controllers are up to there is an all-staff forum on Monday.

A learned reader says building the new Operating Model is an immensely complex process (said to involve 100 plus staff), which is taking years to make the university’s human resources, finance, IT and campus infrastructure services professional service units easier to work with. “It takes a bureaucracy to reform one,” the LR remarks.