The Canberra Institute of Technology’s recruitment of CEO Dr Margot McNeill last year was marred by ineffective due diligence, poor governance, and Dr McNeill’s failure to disclose misconduct findings in a timely way, a Legislative Assembly committee has found.
Dr McNeill began as CIT CEO in June, after the resignation of her predecessor, Leanne Cover, whom the ACT Integrity Commission found had engaged in serious and corrupt conduct.
Independent MLA Thomas Emerson called for the CIT Board to “take decisive action and dismiss Dr McNeill”.
Mr Emerson said: “Dr McNeill is contractually and legally obliged to exercise honesty in her job. Surely actively misleading the Board is a blatant violation of that obligation.”
The committee found that neither CIT’s recruitment form nor the Board’s governance arrangements were fit for purpose.
Mr Emerson welcomed this finding.
“CIT’s reputation has been significantly damaged by the conduct of successive CEOs,” Mr Emerson said. “These scandals have undermined public trust in CIT and distracted from its core function of delivering quality education for Canberrans. We need to look at why CIT’s governance arrangements have failed so spectacularly – twice in a row – and what reforms are needed to keep this from happening in the future.”
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