John Abbott has been installed as the new chancellor of Central Queensland University. A ceremony to mark the occasion, officiated by Queensland Governor Paul de Jersey, was held at CQUni's Rockhampton North campus. Abbott becomes the third chancellor in the ...
More »UQ extends VC Høj’s contract through until 2021
The University of Queensland has announced that vice-chancellor and president Professor Peter Høj has extended his contract with the Brisbane-based Group of Eight institution for another five years, keeping the Danish-born academic at UQ through until 2021. Following this announcement, Høj said: “It’s a ...
More »$9.5m grant awarded to research the overtesting that diagnoses ‘incidentalomas’
Professor Paul Glasziou from Bond University heads up a team of Australian researchers – Professors Rachelle Buchbinder from Monash, and Chris Maher and Kirsten McCaffery from the University of Sydney – that have just received a $9,578,895 grant to investigate unnecessary testing and ...
More »When a school deals with death
This feature was originally written for Campus Review's sister title Education Review. While the focus is on secondary school responses to student deaths, many of the issues are also applicable to the tertiary education sector. When Christopher Hall was in primary ...
More »CDU Pukumani poles’ pride of place restored
Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory, has restored three traditional Pukumani poles to prominence at its main Casuarina campus in Darwin. The poles were created by Melville Island artist Eymard Tungatalum while he was a student at Northern Territory University, which ...
More »Open Universities points finger at rivals as it closes VET business
Open Universities Australia revealed on Monday that it would be shuttering its vocational training business Open Training Institute after the current cohort of students completes their courses. No new enrolments will be accepted. Courses offered by OTI included accounting, administration, human resources, ...
More »Curtin appoints experienced scientist to deputy VC role
Chris Moran has been appointed the new deputy vice-chancellor, research, at Curtin University. Moran will commence this new position in August 2016, replacing the retiring Professor Graeme Wright. Since 2007, Moran has been a professor and director at the University ...
More »What’s SUP? Bond researching trendy stand-up paddleboarding
One of the advantages of being an assistant professor at Bond University is that you are based in the heart of the Gold Coast – surrounded by water, as Dr James Furness puts it – indeed, Furness’s stamping ground borders ...
More »UNSW, Flinders research reveals hunger, poverty and bullying among kids
Despite the young adolescent period, classed as 8-14 years old, being a period of significant physical, intellectual and emotional foment, the children-cum-teens in this age group receive relatively little attention from policymakers and academics. That is one of the findings ...
More »USyd Muslim prayer room ransacked for fifth time in three months
A Muslim prayer room, called a Musallah, at the University of Sydney has been trashed for the fifth time in three months, with a threatening note left at the scene. The news was revealed in a Facebook post and later ...
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