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Australian research has garnered several money commitments for work that shows valuable benefits. By Aidan Byrne It has been an intense and interesting year for the higher education and research sectors. Of course, much of the focus has been on ...

Fed up with repeated spam emails from faux journals seeking submissions, I decided to have some fun; the results were initially amusing but ultimately concerning. By Peter Vamplew As a computer science researcher, I first encountered predatory, spam-driven publishers during ...

The word Gothic (in Latin “gothicus”) would have struck terror into the hearts of 5th-century Romans, with its dark connotations of barbarians pouring out of Germanic wilderness to destroy their civilisation. Centuries later, Gothic seems to have shaken off its ...

Internationally recognised biomedical engineering and sleep-disorder expert professor Philip de Chazal has been appointed ResMed chair in biomedical engineering at the University of Sydney. The university stated that de Chazal would lead its research and educational activities in biomedical engineering, ...

The University of Tasmania has praised the appointment of professor Kate Warner as the first female governor of Tasmania. Warner was the university’s first female law faculty professor and its first female law faculty dean. Her colleagues estimate she’s had ...

The University of New England has announced local grazier and businessman James Harris as its chancellor. As well as operating a large grazing operation in the region, Harris has been a UNE council member since 1994. His family has long ...

A husband and wife duo of lawyers have each gained appointments at Charles Darwin University. Originally from Adelaide, Joe and Juliette McIntyre will join CDU School of Law from Thompson Rivers University in Canada. Prior to their stint at Thompson Rivers ...

Professor John Fitzgerald, a leading expert on China, Australia and the geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region, has been elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Fitzgerald was China representative of the Ford Foundation in Beijing from 2008–12, until ...

Janet Dalby has been appointed to the new position of chief academic officer at VET provider Evocca College. Evocca stated that Dalby brought more than 20 years of experience in the education sector, having commenced her career in 1992 at Brighton ...

Australia’s top science students say competition for jobs and the cost of university degrees are the biggest barriers to their career goals. In a recent survey of some of the most talented secondary science students, more than 80 per cent revealed concerns that ...