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Monash has built on its strong international student base to develop a more networked university of the Asia Pacific. Although it has become almost routine to say so, we are living in a time of transformational change. We are still ...

The national broadband network will be very important in helping Australia reach the goals of the Asian Century proposals The Prime Minister’s commitment to building the Asian language competencies of Australians as an outcome of the Asian Century white paper ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, has been given the power to appoint a governing council at the University of Sydney’s troubled St John’s College. The NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell introduced a bill to Parliament last week that ...

Kaylene Harth, institute director, Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE, responds to the final report of the state’s Skills and Training Taskforce. What broad opportunities do you see arising from the report’s recommendation about the future role and purpose of TAFE ...

New Zealand’s polytechnic colleges are well placed to help meet the call for more graduates The government is flexing its muscles on the question of supply of engineering graduates and is challenging New Zealand’s top university with getting a different ...

Jonathan Churchill has been appointed as director of Information Technology & Resources at James Cook University. Currently associate director, technology, at the University of Adelaide, Churchill will take up the JCU position on January 21. Churchill has a BSc (Hons) ...

Professor of computer science, Ian Reid, will join the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies within the school of computer science at the University of Adelaide. Reid has come from the University of Oxford where he led the Active Vision Laboratory, ...

Business management and marketing academic, Graham Young, who has an extensive business development background in the information technology industry is set to lead the University of the Sunshine Coast’s new $5.5 million Gympie Learning Hub. Young has been at the ...

A leading expert in indigenous archaeology has been appointed as the inaugural Kimberley Foundation Ian Potter chair in Rock Art at the University of Western Australia. Professor Peter Veth, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the ...

International structural engineering expert Professor Frieder Seible has been appointed as dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. Seible makes the move to Monash from the University of California. “Professor Seible brings to Monash an impressive record of ...