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Most of Australia's uni leaders are white, male and grey. This lack of diversity could be a handicap

  • Written by Siew Fang Law, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School Of Education, University of Melbourne
Most of Australia's uni leaders are white, male and grey. This lack of diversity could be a handicapDavid Burke/Flickr

Australian universities are diverse places. They are a mix of students, staff and communities from different demographic backgrounds.

This is not true of the people who run universities. Higher education leaders tend to have backgrounds that are “WEIRD”: Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic.

In 2018,...

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