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University of NSW pro vice-chancellor (Research) professor Mark Hoffman has been named the university’s new dean of engineering. Hoffman will take up the appointment from February in place of professor Graham Davies who is relocating back to the UK. Professor Hoffman ...

The University of Tasmania’s faculty of education has announced that professor Kim Beswick has been appointed to the 2015 Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (COE). The COE plays a key role in identifying research excellence, moderating external assessments and recommending fundable ...

Bond University’s Abedian School of Architecture has announced the appointment of internationally renowned architect and academic professor Adrian Carter as its new head. Prior to this role, Carter held an associate professorship at the University of Aalborg in Denmark and ...

A fresh call for recovery of HECS-HELP debt from expatriate graduates and a hybrid repayment scheme were amongst several key amendments stakeholders urged during last week’s Senate inquiry into university deregulation. Addressing the Senate committee last week, HECS architect professor Bruce Chapman again ...

The maturation of global arrangements is creating greater opportunities than ever for Australian institutions. By Phil Honeywood Australian colleges, by and large, make excellent global partners. The foundation for this was laid over a century ago by Australians’ strong belief ...

VET’s review hasn’t matched the fanfare of higher education’s but the sector is going through major changes to serve the needs of both school-leavers and industry. By Greg McMillan Since the first whispers of university deregulation prior to May’s federal ...

Go8 chiefs and HECS experts are amongst those due to be quizzed in Canberra this afternoon as the Senate inquiry into the government’s proposed higher-education reforms rolls on. An appearance by ANU VC and Go8 chair professor Ian Young this ...

The earnings of Indigenous Australian university graduates appear to be nearly on par with their non-Indigenous colleagues, according to fresh data analysis by a University of Western Australia researcher. Based on data from Graduate Careers Australia’s annual Graduate Destinations surveys ...

Elite golfers are able to harness and govern their physical motions and psychological processes in order to maintain the feeling of flow, which can enable longer periods of peak performance, new research has shown. Based on a number of in-depth interviews ...

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