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The AWPA’s arguments for removing the profession from the Skilled Occupation List ignore many factors that drive the labour market. By Phil Honeywood . The Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency (AWPA) recently concluded another round of consultations about whether the ...

A damning ASQA report raises questions about all online courses and underscores the role market-based policies have contributed to consumer exploitation. By John Mitchell. If online learning is poor quality in one industry, is it poor quality in every other ...

Managing director of Mushroom Music Publishing, Ian James, one of Australia’s most well respected music industry identities, will take up a new role as adjunct professor in Victoria University’s college of business. Dean of the college of business, professor Colin ...

Professor Kevin Hall is set to take up the position of deputy vice-chancellor research and innovation at the University of Newcastle. Hall is an accomplished researcher in the field of civil engineering. He has had a distinguished academic career holding ...

Internationally recognised performing arts scholar Mary Luckhurst will take up a position as professor of creative practice and artistic research at the University of Melbourne in the faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music ...

Federation University Australia has appointed Dr Andrew West head of business and economics at the Gippsland Campus. West joined the Gippsland Campus in 2008 after four years at Monash University’s South African campus. Prior to this, he worked in the ...

Nanotechnology researcher and globally respected academic leader professor Max Lu has been selected as University of Queensland’s first provost. UQ president and vice-chancellor professor Peter Høj said professor Lu was selected through an internationally competitive search that attracted candidates “from ...

Innovative Research Universities has announced that professor John Dewar, vice-chancellor at La Trobe University, will chair the IRU network for 2014 and 2015.  Dewar was appointed vice-chancellor and president of La Trobe in January 2012.  Prior to that he was provost ...

An article on a recent Australian by-election reported that corflutes associated with one of the candidates had been defaced.  The captioned photo alongside showed the dismayed candidate  looking at the altered portraits of himself with moustache and heavy spectacles on a set ...

Activist cites conflict of interest as the reason for his departure. By Antonia Maiolo. Prominent public health activist Dr Ken Harvey has quit his job at La Trobe University after the university signed a $15 million, six-year deal with vitamins ...