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UWA researcher, Winthrop Professor Zdenko (Zed) Rengel, has been awarded a Humboldt research award. The award, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, promotes academic cooperation between scientists from Germany and abroad. Rengel, of UWA’s School of Earth and Environment and ...

Open Universities Australia has announced the appointment of Michelle Beveridge to general manager, operations. Prior to joining OUA, Beveridge was chief information officer at IDP Education for three years and general manager of information services at OAMPS Insurance Brokers for ...

Andrew Smith, currently CEO of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET), has been appointed CEO of Swinburne College. Swinburne College provides foundation programs for international students as well as managing delivery of Swinburne’s offshore programs. Prior to ...

La Trobe has become the third Australian university to be awarded the European Union’s prestigious Jean Monnet Chair for high-level education and research about Europe. The Chair, valued at around $90,000, will be held for three years by Dr Stefan ...

Nigel Palmer is moving to the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education to take up a position as a research fellow in October. Palmer was national president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) from ...

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will join the University of Queensland in an honorary capacity at two institutes that he helped found. Beattie has been made an adjunct professor in bioscience and nanotechnology with UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and ...

Professor Maureen Simmonds has been appointed as head of the School of Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She joins Curtin from McGill University in Canada, where she was director of the School of Physical and ...

Simon Haines hears some disturbing stories about Chinese pre-kindies. If you Google “baby MBA”, you will find many stories about the problems faced by American women trying to upgrade their business qualifications while raising small children – or about shortened ...

The New Zealand government is moving ahead with plans to link funding with employment outcomes. In a speech at Victoria University last week, tertiary education minister Steve Joyce detailed previously announced plans to introduce performance-based funding for tertiary providers of ...

Vince Cable, the UK business secretary, has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of UK higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate contributions for high earners, the ...