Australian universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year hiring consultants, including from major firms PwC and Deloitte, even as wage theft scandals and redundancies rock the sector.
on “consultancy and specialist services” and Macquarie University paid $47 million for “consultants and contractors” but did not provide a figure just for consultants.
On at least one occasion, a PWC consultant who had worked on the restructure moved into a high-ranking job at the UNSW soon afterwards. Still, consultants put university executive boards at ease, Bell said. When they came under pressure to slim down after Howard-era reforms, they turned to the same consultants trusted by governments.
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