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Professor Sandra Harding has been re-appointed James Cook University’s vice-chancellor and president through the end of 2021. Lieutenant-General John Grey, chancellor of JCU, said the university council recognised Harding’s strong leadership of the university and that she “is held in ...

Griffith University has welcomed Henry Smerdon as its new Chancellor following the retirement of Leneen Forde. With a long career in finance – including a stints in senior executive roles at both Queensland Treasury and the Queensland Investment Corporation – ...

Professor Craig Jeffrey has been appointed the next director of the Australia India Institute (AII) based at the University of Melbourne. The AII is Australia’s only national centre for research and analysis on India and is a hub for dialogue, ...

Dr Tony Birch will join Victoria University from July this year as the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. The Bruce McGuinness Fellowship is named for one of Victoria’s most respected Aboriginal Elders and supports ...

A record number of Indigenous PhD students have graduated from the University of New South Wales. Four Indigenous students are graduating from UNSW with PhDs, with three receiving their doctorates during ceremonies on the Kensington campus this month. It’s the ...

Increased anxiety is the latest condition to be linked to prolonged sitting. Watching TV, working at a computer or playing electronic games have long been associated with physical health problems such as obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis. ...

Online learning breaks down barriers to education giving people who may not have accessed higher education a chance to study off campus and at their own pace. This is according to David-Jack Fletcher, an online teacher at Swinburne Online, who ...