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Focusing on three good things could lead to higher levels of wellbeing and job satisfaction for teachers and lecturers, a Central Queensland University student has said. With this belief and a passion for positive psychology, graduate diploma of psychology honours ...

The birthdate of the word scofflaw (one who flouts laws that are minor and unenforceable) is known much more exactly than most: January 15, 1924. It was the winning entry, out of more than 25,000 in a competition held in ...

US desalination expert professor Wendell Ela has been announced as Murdoch University’s new professor of desalination and water treatment. Ela, who is presently professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Arizona, will take up the post at ...

Vice-dean of medical sciences at Oxford University professor Rodney Phillips is set to return to his native Australia to join the University of NSW as its new dean of medicine, replacing the outgoing professor Peter Smith. Phillips, who left Australia ...

Australian Research Council executive director for humanities and creative arts professor Denise Meredyth will join the University of South Australia in 2015 as pro vice chancellor for education, arts and social sciences. In a statement, UniSA vice-chancellor professor David Lloyd ...

Swinburne University of Technology alumnus and financial services industry figure Graham Goldsmith has been formally installed as the university’s new chancellor. Goldsmith said that as chancellor he hoped “to make at least a modest contribution to this university and to ...

Songwriter and founding member of the rock group INXS, Andrew Farriss, is set to join Australian National University this year as a visiting fellow at ANU’s School of Music. The university stated that, as its H.C. Coombs Fellow, Farriss would ...

University leaders have welcomed indications from Education Minister Christopher Pyne that he is open to negotiating the 20 per cent cut to university funding that remains entrenched in the revised version of the government’s higher education reform bill. While Pyne ...

Monash University has recently invested in a multi-million dollar plan for a new student housing vicinity at the university’s Clayton campus in Victoria. The $145 million student accommodation precinct comprises four buildings by three teams – Hayball/Richard Middleton Architects and ...