Overview
- UTS proposes disestablishing its School of International Studies and Education and its School of Public Health, ending teacher training at the university.
- The plan would discontinue 167 courses and 1,101 subjects and identify 134 full-time equivalent academic redundancies.
- The restructure would reduce the number of schools from 24 to 15 and merge business, law and transdisciplinary units, with health teaching reorganised under a renamed School of Health and Human Performance.
- A formal consultation runs until October 15 with changes proposed from 2026, and current students would be taught out to completion.
- UTS cites five years of deficits and debt including a $300m bond for the cuts, after a SafeWork NSW pause on rollout was lifted, as unions and NSW education chief Murat Dizdar raise concerns about the teacher pipeline; 463 axed subjects had no 2024 enrolments under demand and viability thresholds.