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The University of Melbourne has appointed two senior staff to help lead the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Associate Professor Su Baker has been appointed director of the VCA, and Professor Gary McPherson director of ...

Australian National University physicist Professor Ken Baldwin has been honoured for his research into precision measurement with the awarding of this year’s Barry Inglis Medal. The medal acknowledges achievement in measurement research and excellence in practical measurements in Australia.

A financial economist noted for heading an award-winning cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship education program in the UK has been appointed dean of La Trobe University’s Faculty of Law and Management. Since 2007, Professor Leigh Drake has been dean of Nottingham University Business ...

Sydney Institute has appointed David Riordan as its institute director. Riordan has over 26 years experience working in the VET, higher education, schools and corporate sectors. After managing, on behalf of TAFE NSW, the project to train the workforce of ...

Former senior Commonwealth public servant, Neville Stevens has been appointed chair of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) committee. Stevens is chair of NICTA and ac3. He worked in the Australian Public Service for 30 years, including five years as deputy ...

La Trobe University historian and prize-winning author, Professor Marilyn Lake, has been elected president of the Australian Historical Association (AHA). A two-year posting, she takes over from Professor Martyn Lyons from UNSW. Lake is a fellow of the Australian Academy ...

Professor Paul Glasziou, an expert in evidence-based medicine, has joined Bond University from the University of Oxford to take up the position of director of the newly formed Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice. Glasziou was previously director of the ...

Jack Ah Kit, the NT’s first Aboriginal government minister, will head a new group that will advise Charles Darwin University on indigenous matters. Ah Kit will chair the 10-member vice-chancellor’s indigenous advisory council, which will provide high-level advice to Professor ...

Dave Guerin has been studying the wave of hypocrisy as the NZ government says it will tie funding to employment outcomes. Graduate outcomes hit the news in New Zealand this month. In many countries, this might be a time when ...