Schools
- Inaction, particularly:
- School leaders failing to investigate misconduct like bullying and harassment
- School leaders and regional executives failing to follow procurement procedures and conflict of interest requirements when hiring staff
- Favouritism – preferential treatment and failing to manage conflicts of interest, particularly in matters relating to people management and procurement.
- Breach of professional boundaries – School principals bullying staff members, leaders engaging in intimidation and bullying of staff after issues were raised or reported.
Universities, TAFEs and other educational institutions
- Inaction, particularly:
- University leaders failing to investigate reports of corruption or misconduct, including sexual harassment
- TAFE employees failing to audit the service delivery of a contractor
- TAFE employees recruiting unsuited students into courses
- Fraud – TAFE training providers falsifying student documentation to assist in gaining government funding, university lecturers falsifying budget figures to embezzle funding.
- Favouritism – university chief operating officers awarding business contracts to a colleague’s private company, university amending regulations to favour an individual in a university council election.
Departments and statutory authorities
- Inaction – not following procurement processes by allowing an incumbent provider to provide an updated proposal outside of the tender process, failure to adequately investigate allegations of corruption and serious misconduct against a school principal, failures to investigate and act on reports of corruption or misconduct.
- Breach of professional boundaries – senior officers using their position to improperly influence the outcomes of job opportunities within the agency, managers using their position to change evaluation scores used in a procurement process.
- Collusion – managers adjusting the requirements for an advertised role to favour a friend.
- Favouritism – managers employing contractors they had previously worked with, without declaring a conflict of interest, employees distributing a cabinet-in-confidence document to a consultant to offer them an advantage.