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Deakin University’s next vice-chancellor will be Professor Jane den Hollander, who succeeds current VC Professor Sally Walker. Den Hollander is currently DVC (academic) at Curtin University and is currently a board member of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Born ...

Curtin University has appointed a new PVC for its Sarawak campus. Professor Ian Kerr, currently deputy PVC for Curtin Business School (CBS), will take over the position from May. Kerr has worked for Curtin for more than 30 years. Prior ...

Three women have been appointed to top executive positions at the University of New England. They are: Professor Annabelle Duncan (pictured) as DVC (research); Kim Cull as chief governance and planning officer; and Professor Jennie Shaw as PVC and dean ...

Nobel Prize-winner Dr Richard Conant will join QUT to research farmland carbon storage. Conant, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice-President Al Gore and other International Panel on Climate Change scientists, will join QUT’s Institute of ...

Nationalistic ideologies played out in mass market movies leave Simon Haines wondering about fiction and reality. Confucius versus Avatar: is there a US-China values story of some kind here? What’s it got to do with Condi Rice? You probably saw ...

AUQA has appointed Dr Michael Tomlinson as an audit director. Tomlinson completed his PhD at Cambridge University, and was then manager of PhD Studies at the University of Melbourne. Subsequently, at Swinburne University, he was university secretary. After a period ...

Doron Ben-Meir has been appointed inaugural CEO of Commercialisation Australia. He is the founder and CEO of Prescient Venture Capital, and has also held positions as principal, private equity and venture capital at Jagen; general manager, IT&T Investments at Escor; ...

While it’s important to expose the headline cases of research fraud, education is also needed to rein in lesser cases. Marginally unethical research behaviour is on the rise, and the federal government’s new research integrity body won’t do much to ...

While state governments have failed to adequately protect international students, they continue to live in a regulatory limbo that fails to given them equal human rights. State governments, particularly Victoria and NSW, have failed to act adequately to protect international ...

The Victorian TAFE Association has called for a softening of the state government’s punitive eligibility criteria which reserve government-funded VET places for people undertaking progressively higher level qualifications.uffering. “For example, many people wantingto become librarians have already done a base ...