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Dr Neale Fong, former director-general of the WA Health Department, has been appointed as the director of the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI). Fong holds bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery, an MBA from UWA, a masters in theological ...

Is increasing the qualifications of the entire population either realistic or necessary, asks Michelle Circelli. A typical response from government to the demands for economic growth is to set targets for increasing the population’s skill level. The Council of Australian ...

TEQSA continues to raise the ire of just about everyone in the sector, but AUQA has been given a reprieve to continue business as usual. By Julie Hare. The Australian Universities Quality Agency will continue business as usual for the ...

A specialist in quality assurance in the higher education sector is about to join Charles Darwin University. Associate Professor Martin Carroll, who has spent almost four years as consulting director with the Oman Accreditation Council, will take up the position ...

Adam Shoemaker considers access and invention in the online academy. Higher education is full of paradoxes. One of the most prominent of these is the gulf between experiential learning and opinion formation. For example, nearly every academic in Australia has ...

Tom Clark bemoans the amount of wasted time and effort in the research grants system. The Australian Research Council recently announced its major rounds of grants results for 2009. Once again, the clear winner is unpaid overtime. The Discovery program ...

The number of students who enrolled in a university nursing course rose slightly last year, new figures show. Federal government data shows an increase of just 1.2 per cent, from 13,434 in 2007 to 13,598 in 2008, in the number ...

Scott Bowman has a big job ahead of him. And he hasn’t been slow in getting to the task of change, writes Julie Hare. Scott Bowman is an optimist. Just a couple of weeks before taking up a five-year appointment ...

The sunnier the weather, the sunnier the human spirit. And the happier people are, the less likely they are to take risky investment decisions, a Deakin University researcher has found. Using data from Germany and the Netherlands, Dr Cahit Guven, ...

Australian universities struggle to supply sufficient engineers to keep the economy growing to its potential. Major nation-building infrastructure projects are hampered by a shortage of engineering skills. Right? Well, perhaps the problem isn’t as severe as it’s widely portrayed, if ...