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Curtin University has appointed a new PVC for its Sarawak campus. Professor Ian Kerr, currently deputy PVC for Curtin Business School (CBS), will take over the position from May. Kerr has worked for Curtin for more than 30 years. Prior ...

Deakin University’s next vice-chancellor will be Professor Jane den Hollander, who succeeds current VC Professor Sally Walker. Den Hollander is currently DVC (academic) at Curtin University and is currently a board member of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Born ...

Nationalistic ideologies played out in mass market movies leave Simon Haines wondering about fiction and reality. Confucius versus Avatar: is there a US-China values story of some kind here? What’s it got to do with Condi Rice? You probably saw ...

Elite Despite the hype, elite US and UK unis are not be lining up to open a campus in India. A closer look reveals Asian universities are the most prolific in establishing branch campuses in neighbouring countries under what is ...

Academics are often called to give evidence as expert witnesses and use the name of their employer institution in doing so. Indeed, an association with a well-known tertiary institution is often a drawcard when selecting an expert witness. However, an ...

Rethinking approaches to international education, research and engagement, by Stephanie Fahey, Eugene Sebastian and Vanessa Carne-Cavagnaro. On 3 April this year across America, in between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, Apple launched its much-anticipated new tablet computer, the iPad. Bloggers ...

University- industry collaboration on an unprecedented scale could change our understanding of disease – and the universe, writes Beverley Head. One decade ago in their book The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid noted that “corporate ...

The latest figures offer further encouragement, but Engineers Australia warns that there’s a long way to go, reports Jeremy Gilling. Engineering commencements continue to show solid growth following the precipitate decline in the first half of the decade. But Engineers ...

Rapid prototyping equipment was once a Rolls Royce, but now it’s the Toyota Camry of model making. And it’s transforming the education experience in all facets of design, reports Jeremy Gilling. Prototype and model-making has traditionally involved machining blocks of ...