$200m research fund sweetens SA uni merger


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The state government-backed merger of Adelaide’s two biggest universities will be sweetened with a new $200 million research fund. But the plan still faces doubts from staff and hurdles and scrutiny in the Parliament.

Over the weekend the University of Adelaide, University of South Australia and the Malinauskas government formally agreed to the long vaunted merger to create the Adelaide University.

The merger – among the biggest in the world …

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