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Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Russell Crawford has been appointed President of the Australian Council of Deans of Science (ACDS). Crawford is Dean of the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne, a position he has held since 2004. ...

Australia needs to ask itself what is a university John Phillips, the outgoing chancellor of the University of Western Sydney (UWS) would like to see Australia have a clearer definition of what is a university. Phillips who will leave the ...

Time abroad reaps benefits for staff and students at a UK university Associate Professor Betty Leask started her talk by sharing a recent dream. In a nutshell, she had dreamed she found herself floating/falling behind a glass wall, on the ...

Despite some risks universities are moving further into the cloud writes Beverley Head Cloud computing is the third most significant issue exercising the minds of Australian university Chief Information Officers (CIO) in 2010, lagging only funding and governance issues. That ...

Consultations with key stakeholders in the proposed new national regulator will start soon Government consultations with key stakeholders on the detailed legislation establishing the new national regulatory and quality agency for higher education will start within the next few weeks. ...

Thesis explores international students’ influence on Australian policy Dr Eugene Sebastian from Monash University has won an International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) award for his PhD thesis which investigated international students’ contribution and influence on the development of Australia’s ...

Professor Robert Stable announces his farewell to Bond The Federal Government needs to be a lot clearer on its intention to encourage student mobility Bond University vice-chancellor and president Professor Robert Stable says. He was talking to Campus Review following ...

Students and industry best judges of sector success, John Mitchell discovers Attend any large VET conference nowadays and it is likely that key speakers will argue that if Australia is to be upskilled quickly then the public provider, TAFE, which ...

Change is on the way in vocational education writes Robin Ryan. Those of us who have been predicting and proposing new ways of managing the sector’s institutional structures and policy settings are being rewarded with signs of significant change. A ...

Professor Peter J. Little, AM, B Pharm has been appointed Professor of Pharmacy and Foundation Head, discipline of pharmacy, and group leader, diabetes complications group, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Bundoora. He will take up the position on the ...