Western Sydney U has a new academic structure. The new set-up follows major administration change which took years to design and implement. “Management must have loved Lego as kids,” a learned reader remarks.

The university’s Board of Trustees has signed off a new-model, which dispenses with faculties and organises academics in seven schools, grouped in what Vice Chancellor Barney Glover tells staff are, “strategically and externally focused clusters of schools.” They are: * Health and Medicine. * HASS, and * STEM.

Three school  are going; science and health, social sciences and psychology, as well as computing, engineering and maths. The new model is; * health sciences, * science, * social sciences, * psychology, * built environment, architecture and industrial design, * computing, maths, stats and data science, and *engineering. Six schools aren’t be touched; * education, * medicine, * law, * humanities-communication arts, * nursing- midwifery and * business.

However Professor Glover adds titles are still “indicative.”

The new model will be good deal easier to implement following the admin reorganisation announced in 2017 ( CMM August 28). This centralised services, with school-based administrators handling teaching and research support.