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One of Australia’s leading economists, Professor Henry Ergas, has been appointed as the inaugural professor of infrastructure economics at the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong. He will focus on the economic, regulatory and public policy research program. ...

CQUniversity researcher Heather Nancarrow has a new role as chair of a newly-established Domestic and Family Violence Strategy Implementation Advisory Group. Nancarrow is director of the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research (CDFVR), based at Mackay Campus. In ...

Professor Janet Hiller has been appointed associate dean of research for health sciences at the Australian Catholic University. She is currently professor of public health, director of the Adelaide Health Technology Assessment and deputy head of the School of Population ...

Australian universities are early pioneers of technology that provides streamlined information to students and staff on the move. Beverley Head reports. Any doubts that the world is mobile-mad are easily dispelled by a simple review of the statistics. There are ...

Universities will produce just half the number of engineers required, estimates predict. Annie May reports. As the engineering skills shortage escalates, so too does the threat it presents to the nation’s ability to grow and be innovative. This is the ...

Encouraging women to look at careers in the traditionally male-dominated information technology industry has earned Southern Cross University lecturer Raina Mason a national award. Raina Mason, who is based at the Coffs Harbour campus and coordinates the School of Commerce ...

Completion rates are, in the simplest sense, the proportion of people who finish a qualification they started. But what rate can be considered a good rate, asks David Roberts. There are at least two reasons why completion rates are presently ...

2012 is racing towards us, and it’s bringing a truckload of questions with it, writes Stephen Parker. It has been said that a market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. We are ...

Lindsay Tanner, the retiring minister for finance in the federal Labor government, has been appointed as the inaugural vice-chancellor’s Fellow at Victoria University. In this role he will contribute to thought leadership in research and knowledge transfer in the area ...

An internationally renowned biologist who led the world-wide challenge to eradicate mosquito-borne disease has been appointed dean of Monash University’s Faculty of Science. Professor Scott O’Neill is currently head of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland. ...