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Eight early career researchers from Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia and Slovak Republic have been named as the successful Group of Eight European Fellows in 2011. Each fellow will receive benefits worth $20,000 to travel to Australia and work at a ...

An approach to make science teaching practical and experimental in one high school has seen an increase in the number of students studying science at university. In the past, and still in many cases today, science teaching has been boring ...

The great Australian who helped eradicate smallpox has died The nation’s higher education sector lost one of its most treasured and distinguished academics last week with the passing of Frank Fenner, emeritus professor in microbiology at Australian National University. Fenner ...

Serious problems in the care of mentally ill prisoners Under-resourced, under-trained and overburdened: this is the situation of Western Australian health professionals and correctional staff looking after male prisoners with mental illnesses, research says. And as a result, such inmates, ...

Project underway to form a tertiary languages network The university languages sector has received a vital funding boost with the announcement that a project to form a tertiary languages network has been awarded a $215,000 grant from the Australian Learning ...

Bond University has appointed Queensland Government Architect Professor Philip Follent as the founding head of its new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, which will accept its first cohort of students in January. Follent said the opportunity to shape a refreshing ...

The University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education (MGSE) has appointed Professor John Hattie director of its research institute. Hattie’s work is internationally acclaimed. His influential 2008 book Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement is ...

Professor Carolyn Evans has been appointed dean of Melbourne Law School. She will take up the position in February. Her appointment followed an international and national search. In a media statement the university council said Evans enjoyed a reputation as ...

Flinders University has appointed Shane McGregor to the new position of vice-president (strategic finance and resources). McGregor has spent the past eight years at the University of Adelaide as its Chief Financial Officer. An MBA and qualified accountant, McGregor has ...

One of the The University of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-serving academics, Professor Pam Dyer has announced her retirement. Dyer started as a lecturer at USC when it opened in 1996 and she progressed through the ranks to become Dean of ...