Overview

• UTS halted new enrolments for 146 low-demand courses across six faculties for the 2026 intake, stressing that suspensions are temporary and not automatic closures.
• The Operational Sustainability Initiative aims to secure A$100 million in savings and forecasts about 400 job cuts, with all outcomes subject to formal academic and enterprise bargaining consultations.
• Staff were directed to an externally produced wellbeing hub featuring a ‘50 tips’ list—advice from washing delicates to baking desserts—that union representatives say trivialised employee distress.
• Freedom of information documents reveal UTS paid roughly A$5 million to KPMG for OSI design and incurred at least A$140 000 in executive US travel, fueling campus frustration.
• SafeWork New South Wales has launched an inquiry into the psychosocial risks of the restructure as UTS progresses through its academic change proposal process.