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University of the Sunshine Coast’s vice-chancellor Professor Paul Thomas has received the Asia-Pacific chief executive leadership award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The first Australian vice-chancellor to receive such an award, he was recognised for his ...

The e-book has become like the ramp at the side of a building: originally installed to facilitate access for people in wheelchairs, but now used by all sorts of people, from cyclists to parcel deliverers. This analogy comes from Sharon ...

A multi-Emmy Award-winning Australian who revolutionised sports telecasting has turned his attention to transforming the reading experience of the visually impaired. Jeremy Gilling reports. We’re the 1000-pound gorilla,” says Michael Katzmann. He’s speaking about the US’s National Library Service for ...

The often very different life experiences of health professionals and indigenous people means they don’t always know how to talk to each other, says Tricia McCabe. McCabe, senior lecturer in speech pathology at Sydney University, heads an ALTC-funded project to ...

Questions are being raised about universities’ processes for awarding advanced standing to overseas-trained nurses towards an Australian nursing degree, reports Jeremy Gilling. Nursing registration boards are becoming increasingly cautious about taking universities’ certification of competence through a nursing degree on ...

After hitting a low point in February, relations between India and Australia have begun to thaw after a visit from human resource development minister Kapil Sibal. Education agents in India might find themselves under increased scrutiny – or at least ...

A young researcher has the chance to be involved in a pioneering project that aims to clean soils of herbicide and pesticide residues using crops. A three-year Australian Research Council (Linkage) scholarship is being offered at Flinders University for a ...

In the article ‘The right stuff’ (CR, 30.03.10), Anne Edwards was VC at Flinders from 2001 to 2007 and Denise Bradley at UniSA from 1997 to 2006. Also, Martin Carroll is in fact PVC (teaching and learning) at CDU.

Professor Branko Celler has commenced as executive dean of the University of Western Sydney’s College of Health and Science. Celler, a biomedical engineer, has expertise in research, commercialisation and corporate management. Celler spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at ...