00:00University of Adelaide student Gabby Colloff had planned to go part-time for her third and final year, but an email in February changed that.
00:11I got an email from the university saying essentially my degree ceases to exist.
00:16Under the new uni, Gabby's International Development degree was changing to an Arts major, and she'd get credits for her minor in Gender Studies, which wasn't being recognised.
00:26I felt strongly that this is what I've been doing and I should come out with what I've enrolled in.
00:33We're really concerned to hear that some students, you know, will have their course greatly disturbed and changed going into the new university.
00:42Outside the university's mixed feelings.
00:45It's just been confusing and tough to wrap up.
00:49Things will proceed as they are, not much change for me.
00:53It just made things a bit difficult, but overall it's been nice because we'll get more facilities in the future.
00:58It's not just the students being affected.
01:01There are people that have run courses in their foundational university for many years that have found, without consultation, have vanished from sight.
01:09Adelaide University says there are some changes to most degrees from what's being offered at the foundation universities,
01:16and those changes aim to meet the needs of industry and future employers.
01:21But as a future employer, the new uni is also under fire for failing to so far finalise an enterprise agreement.
01:28People are getting paid, different rates are paid to do the same job across the board, and we need to harmonise that as quickly as possible.
01:35The union says two years wasn't enough time for a merger as major as this.
01:40Staff are exhausted. I believe that staff will fall across the starting line rather than sprint across it.
01:46A supersized university requiring a super effort.
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