Jove that was quick. The announcement comes a day after management said it would use its own savings plan rather than the proposed pay and conditions cuts for jobs national accord

The university will “realign” schools in three existing faculties to make two as it, “is reshaped in response to the irreversible changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The Faculty of Law Humanities and the Arts will be broken up with the schools of arts, English and media, liberal arts, and humanities and social inquiry joining what is now the Faculty of Social Sciences. The law school joins the Faculty of Business, which will be renamed.

The medicine and engineering-information science faculties are unchanged.

“The realignment will not impact front line academic teaching or research roles, but will create efficiencies at senior executive and senior management levels,” VC Paul Wellings says.  

Last November Macquarie U announced a similar sort of restructure, to close the Faculty of Human Services and distributing its constituent schools.

While there is no comparison between that and the Uni Wollongong announcement, Macquarie U said its closure would save $4m (CMM November 15).