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The University of Newcastle apparently still needs the skills it made redundant
Michael Cuneo · 8 Oct 2026
After being made redundant from the University of Newcastle, I was surprised to see the University advertising for a senior developer role covering many of the same responsibilities I had already been performing. This article looks at that contradiction alongside the University’s multimillion-dollar investment in external technology providers and asks a simple question: why remove internal capability only to rebuild it later?
