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A review 10 quality audit reports for private higher education providers reveal some startling similarities, writes Hilary Winchester The higher education sector in Australia has changed dramatically in the past decade. Three significant changes have been the development of quality ...

Awaiting the unintended consequences of the next phase of the immigration-migration nexus, Paul Rodan ponders interpretations of the recent past. Recent immigration policy changes relating to international students can be seen as representing the success of the views of Monash ...

Will dual sector universities lead the tertiary sector on governance arrangements, asks John Mitchell. With more TAFE institutes offering degrees and an increasing number of private providers straddling the divide between VET and higher education, new governance issues are emerging ...

Professor Chris McAuliffe and Professor Mick Dodson have been awarded the dual chair of Australian studies at Harvard University for the 2011-12 academic year. Dodson, director of ANU’s National Centre for Indigenous Studies and 2009 Australian of the Year, will ...

The University of Ballarat has appointed Professor David Gao as the new Alexander Rubinov Professor of Mathematics. Formerly of Virginia Tech in the US, Gao is a specialist in global optimisation, applied and computational mathematics and mechanics. He will take ...

A USQ academic has been named 2010 president of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems. USQ information systems head of school, Professor Mark Toleman, was elected president at December’s AGM. ACPHIS is the peak body established ...

Former senior diplomat, Ian Wilcock, has been appointed chair of the advisory board of the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music on behalf of the council of the University of Melbourne. Wilcock retired from the Department ...

UWA has appointed plant researcher, Winthrop Professor Karambir Singh to head a joint UWA/CSIRO program on plant biotic stress and crop genomics. Singh is a senior principal research scientist with CSIRO’s plant industry group in Perth. He will take up ...

Stephen Connelly has joined RMIT University as pro vice-chancellor (international and development). Before joining RMIT, Connelly held various positions in international education and marketing, including deputy vice-chancellor (development and engagement) at Swinburne University and director of the international programs office ...

Australian Academy of the Humanities executive director, Dr John Byron (pictured), who has held the position since August 2003, is to be replaced by Dr Christina Parolin. Byron is to take up an advisory role in the office of Senator ...