The in-the-know word at the start of the week was that the feds had changed the JobKeeper rules (again) so that the four Table B (private) universities would qualify for the wage subsidy, while public institutions do not

Make that three. University of Notre Dame Australia VC, Francis Campbell tells staff; “As Notre Dame receives government funding, we will not be availing of the scheme, and we do not qualify in financial terms as we have not seen a 30 per cent fall in income.”

Nowhere near it – UNDA expects 2020 revenue to be down by 14 per cent. It’s a decline many VCs would wish for but it is not great for UNDA – in deficit in 2018 and ’19.