Dr John Shine, director of the Garvan Institute in Sydney, has received the $300,000 Prime Minister’s prize for science for his science – discoveries of key gene sequences that led to cloned medicines – and his research leadership. Other winners ...
More »Thinking tiers in sectors impedes policy says Moodie
Long engagement before vocational and higher education settle down together The relationship between vocational education and higher education will remain uncertain and contested for the next three to five years, multi-sector policy expert Gavin Moodie says. Moodie ‘set the scene’ ...
More »Combat low-levels of self-esteem among indigenous students: Dodson
Within indigenous families there is a living memory of education as an instrument of disempowerment: Australia has no excuse not to provide indigenous children with the best education possible yet it still seems unable to do so, Professor Mick Dodson ...
More »Distance disadvantage needs a new measure
Current remoteness rating not working writes Mex Butler. Youth Allowance eligibility for regional students is causing much debate, but the discussion seems to be missing one important fact – that there is considerable scope for obtaining a more equitable result ...
More »Can teaching quality be ranked agency asks
While it may seem the rankers are battling to outrank one another, QS’s Nunzio Quacquarelli writes that it very much depends what users are looking for. In the past three months, a number of researchers of global university rankings have ...
More »Sound advice on being a winner
With the Australian Teaching and Learning Council awards announced next week three former winners Mark Israel, Iain Hay, Lisa Emerson take a wry look at impacts on their careers Prepare an acceptance ‘speech’. Those who get to deliver an acceptance ...
More »Inaugural chair in sustainable mining practices at UNSW
Associate Professor David Laurence has accepted the position of the inaugural Mitsubishi chair in sustainable mining practices at the University of New South Wales School of Mining Engineering. As chair, Laurence also becomes the founding director of the Australian Centre ...
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Open Universities Australia (OUA) has appointed Mr Sam Weiss as chairman and Mr David Phillips as an independent director. Weiss replaces outgoing chair Peter Wade, who retired in October after 10 years in the role. Weiss served as an independent ...
More »UWS academic joins board
Tim Hannan, a senior lecturer from the School of Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, has been elected as a general director on the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) board of directors. The APS is the largest professional association for ...
More »USC signs agreement with Cambodia on eco-tourism
The University of the Sunshine Coast has signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism to help establish tourism educational institutions and plan strategic policies for sustainable tourism. “There is big potential for USC, short and long-term, ...
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