Adelaide University co-vice chancellors, professors Peter Høj and David Lloyd, fronted the federal Education and Employment Legislation Committee this morning in its Adelaide hearing, where it emerged many current staff members are yet to learn their new roles.

Lloyd told the committee that the merger of the universities of Adelaide and South Australia was “unprecedented in scale and complexity” and that, in hindsight, running the two universities while the merger was ongoing was “probably not the greatest idea that we ever had”.

Høj said that in his and Lloyd’s 30 collective years running higher education institutions, “the regulatory burden has increased very considerably for universities”.

“If you’re a small university, then this increase in regulatory burden takes more and more mo

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