Was Melbourne Model stoush behind the Law dean’s departure?

[ninwa]

The departing dean of the University of Melbourne’s Law School, Professor James Hathaway, was at the centre of an ugly stoush over the implementation of the University’s controversial Melbourne Model just weeks before his resignation last Wednesday.

A damning series of internal documents, obtained by Crikey, reveals widespread anger from within the elite faculty over changes that would have seen up to four professional staff sacked and replaced with three senior bureaucrats, leading to a budget blowout and a “pyramid-like professional staff structure”.

After serving as dean for just 18 months, Professor Hathaway announced his resignation last week, ostensibly to pursue refugee advocacy work. However, in the weeks preceding his resignation, an 80-strong staff led law faculty “deliberative group” was in active revolt over “the most significant changes experienced by a faculty in at least the last 20 years”.

In the 19-page, 39-recommendation salvo, aggrieved staff blast the consultation process following the announcement of staff cuts on 17 September as “manifestly inadequate”.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/was-melbourne-model-stoush-behind-the-law-deans-departure/  for full article.

[Gloamglozer]

Sorry, but what does "stoush" mean?

EDIT:  Also, what are the complications of sacking "...four professional... '[and replacing them]...with three senior bureaucrats"?

[enwiabe]

rofl i guess he could see the writing on the wall about how bs the melbourne model

[ninwa]

a fight, an argument

[Gloamglozer]

a fight, an argument

Ah, thanks.  If only I knew about wikitionary.  I just went to google and:

define: stoush

But with no avail.

[ninwa]

But that's how I got the wiktionary definition ... by Googling "define: stoush"

...

[kendraaaaa]

LOL someone's google is broken.

Definitions of  stoush on the Web:

    * a fight, an argument
      en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stoush

[Gloamglozer]

?  I think my Google was broken.  I did it again just now and I got a definition.

Gotta love technology.