Meet the skinless chickens (AKA our university vice-chancellors)

Australia came to a fork in the road. The private sector went one way. The public sector the other, singing wee-wee-wee all the way to a comfortable home. 

As a community, we have designed a very bad and strange system. In the private sector, there has been a long term project to align the interests of employees with that of their organisations. This to ensure that employees have ‘skin in the game’ so as to share in the droughts and the bounties. No doubt the implementation of such alignment is far from perfect, but the general principle is that employees do well when their organisations do well and they do poorly when their organisations do poorly. There have even been moves, in some sectors, to claw back prior…