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Australian scientist and businesswoman, Professor Adrienne Clarke, has been appointed chancellor of La Trobe University. A former chairman of the CSIRO and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, Clarke has been a director of public companies including Woolworths, Alcoa, WMC, AMRAD, Fisher ...

Professor Susan Thorp has been appointed to Australia’s first chair of finance and superannuation at the University of Technology Sydney's Business School. Thorp is a professor of finance and superannuation in the UTS Faculty of Business. Her research focuses on ...

University of Melbourne Chancellor, the Hon Alex Chernov AO, will be Victoria’s next governor. Chernov, a Melbourne alumnus who has been chancellor for two years and a university council member for 19 years, will stand down in April to take ...

Professor Joanne Wright has been elected chair of the AUQA board. Wright, is deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president academic at the University of South Australia. Her previous roles include pro vice-chancellor: education, the University of Sussex, and dean of the Faculty ...

Werner is currently director of Higher Education and Legislative Review in the Western Australian Department of Education Services (DES), a portfolio that encompasses the school, VET and higher education sectors. He held various lecturing positions at Curtin University, the University ...

Dr George Brown has been appointed to the AQUA board by its members having been elected by the non self-accrediting institutions. Brown has been group academic director at Think: Education Group in since 2007, a private provider that offers a ...

Dr Leonard Webster has taken up a position as an audit director with AUQA. Webster has experience in teaching and learning in higher education in areas of quality development, eLearning, distance education, educational development research, educational strategic policy and planning, ...

Swinburne University of Technology has appointed its third vice-chancellor and president, Professor Linda Kristjanson. Currently deputy vice-chancellor, Research and Development at Curtin University, Kristjanson’s international career includes a distinguished research track record and significant strategic leadership roles. Announcing the appointment, ...

The University of Melbourne has appointed one of India’s leading thinkers and writers on international relations, Professor Amitabh Mattoo, as the inaugural director of the Australia India Institute. Mattoo is a professor of disarmament studies at the Centre for International ...

The financially threatened universities of Europe need more autonomy so that they can diversify their income streams – but staff are worried that new income streams will threaten their academic autonomy. Co-funding arrangements could be the biggest threat to the ...