Staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health have been told to “proceed to preparing Semester 2 activities for online delivery.”

Garton is set to temporarily replace outgoing VC Michael Spence from the end of this year.

Emails among senior University management suggest the plan to close the Sydney College of the Arts was not purely financially motivated.

Max Hall and Subeta Vimalarajah report

Alexandros Tsathas and Victoria Zerbst report.

Mary Ward reports

Stephen Garton spoke to Max Chalmers about what the Gonski reforms mean for the University of Sydney.