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The articles ‘Specialists not novices for e-learning’ (CR, 15.06.10) and ‘E-Learning capability requirements’ (CR, 28.06.10) highlight some significant issues for flexible learning. The Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG) clearly agrees that the use of technology has made a significant impact ...

Students jealousy manage their time, but it may not be conducive to broad and expansive learning, writes Stephen Billett. It has been long claimed that many higher education students are time poor. That is, because of the need to work ...

Victoria University has appointed Professor Peter Dawkins as its new vice-chancellor from January 2011, following the retirement of Professor Elizabeth Harman. Dawkins, an economist, was appointed director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University ...

Simon McKeon, executive director and chair of corporate finance at Macquarie Bank, has been appointed chair of the CSIRO board. McKeon has degrees in law and commerce from the University of Melbourne and prior to joining Macquarie, practised as a ...

Professor Frank Vanclay has been appointed professor of cultural geography at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Previously, he was professor of rural sociology in the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania. Vanclay specialises in ...

AUQA has appointed Dr Iring Wasser as an audit director. Wasser has degrees in public administration and international politics, and a PhD in American studies. For the last 10 years, he has been the CEO of the accreditation agency for ...

UWA’s Professor Richard Hobbs is to be awarded the 2010 Ecological Society of Australia Gold Medal. The award recognises his research in theoretical and applied aspects of restoration ecology. Hobbs joined UWA in 2009 as professor of restoration ecology in ...

The director of UQ’s Global Change Institute, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has been selected as the coordinating lead author of Chapter 30, ‘Open Oceans’, to the working group II (WGII) contribution of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Professor Michael Clements will join Swinburne University in the role of professor of industry-engaged learning (IEL). He will lead the design and implementation of IEL programs and build on the university’s links between IEL and research. He has previously held ...

Dr Teresa Lacono has been appointed professor and head of the Department of Allied Health at the La Trobe Rural Health School in Bendigo. Iacono is the first of four new LRHS professors to be appointed. Prior to joining La ...