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#1 Submitted by ... on June 24, 2022 - 7:50am

It has become a teaching battery farm with not a great focus on producing world-leading research. Look at the ratios: The University of Cambridge University has 6500 academics with 4000 admin stafff for 17,000 students while University of Melbourne has 4600 academics for 52,000 students.

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