Information provided by an anonymous source featured Prof Barker saying he had dropped the plan about two-and-a-half weeks before the meeting. A target of March would give the department enough time to plan a way forward, Prof Barker said. The division’s "lemon is just about squeezed dry, and they squeeze it a bit more", Prof Barker said. The 2020 budget process had highlighted structural imbalances within the department, particularly that the mathematics programme needed attention, the presentation said. It concluded that the university needed to address the imbalance, refresh the mathematics programme, and to engage better at university level.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 05, 2019 15:22 UTC