Professor Jan Thomas has been appointed as deputy vice-chancellor of The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus. Actively engaged with the higher education sector for the last 10 years, most recently she has been a member of the Department ...
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Dr Alan McPhail has joined CQUniversity as dean of the School of Engineering and Built Environment based at Gladstone. For the last couple of years he has taught at CQUniversity Sydney and coordinated courses in computing systems and data communications. ...
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ACU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has appointed Tim Scrase as associate dean (research) and professor of sociology at the North Sydney campus. He was formerly director of the ARC Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, an interdisciplinary ...
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The University of Queensland’s UQ College is now up and running, following appointment of its first chief executive officer, Rod Arthur. Based at UQ Ipswich, UQ College will expand options for school-leavers and mature-age students who want a UQ qualification ...
More »Holloway appointed new Perth Festival artistic director
The director of one of the UK’s largest arts festivals has been appointed as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, founded by The University of Western Australia. Jonathan Holloway, currently artistic director and chief executive of the 238-year-old ...
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The Mayan calendar has doomsday scheduled for 2012. The end of the internet as we know it will come even sooner. Beverley Head reports. July 2011. That’s the date by which analysts expect that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority will ...
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Students feel weight of law
Certain law school examination practices have a negative impact on student health. Annie May reports. Concern over the role assessment methods have on the high incidence of excessive stress, anxiety and depression among law students has prompted a call for ...
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Recruiting a generation of accountants motivated by migration and financial rewards is a questionable strategy, writes Annie May. The regeneration of the accounting profession is being hindered by a lack of qualified new entrants, with researchers questioning the government’s strategy ...
More »Digging a big hole for international education
Stark comparisons can be drawn between the government’s attitude to the mining industry and international education, writes Paul Rodan. Those in the international education sector cannot have missed the obvious contrast between their treatment by government and that given to ...
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