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Conor King, institutional strategist at Victoria Universit,y is to join PhillipsKPA as a principal consultant. He has been with VU since 2006. Prior to that he was director, policy and analysis, with the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee from 1998 to 2005 ...

Charles Darwin University’s Northern Territory manager of the primary industries and community services industry division, Dr Brian Heim, is the winner of the Institute of Trade Skills Excellence Teacher of the Year award for 2008. He was also named agricultural ...

Australian expat Martin Bean has been appointed as the fifth vice-chancellor of the UK’s Open University. Currently general manager responsible for product management, marketing and business development for the Worldwide Education Products Group at Microsoft, Bean has held senior executive ...

Swinburne University has appointed Linda Brown as deputy vice-chancellor (TAFE). Brown is presently director of Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE (MSIT) in Brisbane. Brown has over 30 years education and business experience in areas such as small business, stockbroking and ...

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has presented Dr Murat Yücel, with the inaugural Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research. Yücel’s in neuropsychology looks into adolescent brain development and the links between adolescent drug addiction and later mental ...

The University of South Australia has been recognised for its approach to working with business to research real problems and find workable solutions. The inaugural Ashley Goldsworthy Award for sustained collaboration between business and higher education was presented to the ...

Dr Sandra Hall from UQ’s Advanced Water Management Centre has been named the inaugural Queensland Young Water Professional of the Year. The award was presented by the Australian Water Association. An expert on the microbiology of wastewater treatment, Hall completed ...

Arabesque your way to a PhD. Now that’s a concept, but last week Garvan Institute endocrinologist and PhD student Sue Lynn Lau won the graduate student category of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “Dance your PhD” contest. ...

It is 1839 and a young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through long wet grass on an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre ...

If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought. Surveys of several thousand people in Britain, the US and elsewhere have found ...