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Australia needs a minister to look after the important international education sector, says Phil Honeywood, executive director of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA). There have been concerns from industry leaders that the sector lacks direction; it generates $16 ...

Staff at the Australian National University in Canberra have rejected plans for redundancies, with union representatives saying there are other ways to save money than by cutting jobs – and that the university may not be in the financial straits ...

Professor Warren Bebbington will continue a career track through the Group of Eight when he commences as vice-chancellor at the University of Adelaide on July 1. “My whole career’s been in Group of Eight universities, so I feel a great ...

Two University of Queensland professors at the Institute for Social Science Research have been appointed to the Australian Research Council College (formerly known as College of Experts).  The new appointees are Professors Janeen Baxter and Brian Head.  The ARC College ...

Deakin University has appointed Professor Trevor Day as pro vice-chancellor to lead its Faculty of Science and Technology.  He will be based at the university’s Geelong Waurn Ponds campus.  Day moved to Deakin from the University of Newcastle where he ...

Professor Mike Daube was presented the 2012 Luther L Terry Award for Distinguished Career at the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health conference in Singapore recently. The awards honour outstanding leadership and accomplishment. Daube is professor of health policy ...

Chris Wallis, director of Swinburne College, has been appointed chair of English Australia. She will work with Marc Weedon‐Newstead, principal/group executive of the UNSW Institute of Languages, who takes on the role of deputy chair. Sue Blundell, executive director of ...

Three leading scientists from the University of Western Australia have joined a global first scientific Cluster to assist industry in accelerating the search for new minerals. The CSIRO Organic Geochemistry of Mineral Systems Cluster was launched recently to bring geochemistry ...

Five University of Adelaide researchers have won funding for new research projects on one of Australia's biggest health problems, diabetes. The 2012 Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) awards held recently saw more than $2.8 million in diabetes research grants presented to ...

William Laurance, a Distinguished Professor and Australian Laureate at James Cook University in Cairns is to receive the 2012 Heineken Prize for Environmental Science. The Heineken Prizes are among the largest awards in the sciences, presented biennially for medicine, history, ...