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Professor John Fitzgerald, a leading expert on China, Australia and the geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region, has been elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Fitzgerald was China representative of the Ford Foundation in Beijing from 2008–12, until ...

Janet Dalby has been appointed to the new position of chief academic officer at VET provider Evocca College. Evocca stated that Dalby brought more than 20 years of experience in the education sector, having commenced her career in 1992 at Brighton ...

Both anecdata and anecdota are cousins of anecdote, a 17th-century loanword from French that goes back to the Greek word anecdoton, meaning “something unpublished”. The earliest English citations have it in the plural form anecdota and glossed as “secret history/histories” ...

Professor Allen Rodrigo has been announced as the new director of the Research School of Biology RSB at ANU’s College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Along with his present role as professor of biology at Duke University in the US, Rodrigo ...

University of Western Sydney deputy vice-chancellor (education) professor Kerri-Lee Krause has been named Victoria University’s new provost. Prior to her present role – which she will vacate in mid-January – Krause has been pro vice-chancellor education at UWS and held ...

UNSW acting vice-chancellor professor Iain Martin said he believed Hoffman was capable of building on the achievements of his predecessor. new NCVER MD worked in SA public service Dr Craig Fowler will replace Rod Camm as the managing director at ...

University of NSW pro vice-chancellor (Research) professor Mark Hoffman has been named the university’s new dean of engineering. Hoffman will take up the appointment from February in place of professor Graham Davies who is relocating back to the UK. Professor Hoffman ...

The University of Tasmania’s faculty of education has announced that professor Kim Beswick has been appointed to the 2015 Australian Research Council’s College of Experts (COE). The COE plays a key role in identifying research excellence, moderating external assessments and recommending fundable ...

Bond University’s Abedian School of Architecture has announced the appointment of internationally renowned architect and academic professor Adrian Carter as its new head. Prior to this role, Carter held an associate professorship at the University of Aalborg in Denmark and ...

The term google has become so familiar – both as the proprietary name of the Internet search engine and as the act of searching on it – that it’s easy to disregard what a strange word it is. The company’s ...