Professor Roger Slee has been appointed inaugural director of the Institute of Diversity, Educational Access and Success at Victoria University. He has a long and impressive record of research in education. His research interests over the years have concerned education ...

Dr John Mackay has been installed as chancellor at the University of Canberra. Mackay, a University of Canberra graduate with a distinguished career in commerce and public administration, takes over as chancellor from Professor Ingrid Moses. Mackay said he was ...

Professor Suzanne Benn has been appointed to the newly created chair in sustainable enterprise at the business school of the University of Technology, Sydney. Establishment of the chair reflects a trend being seen among North American and European business schools ...

Flinders University Council has extended vice-chancellor Professor Michael Barber’s contract for two years to 31 December 2014. The extension aligns with the implementation period of Flinders Strategic Plan 2010-2014 – Inspiring Flinders Future – the development of which was a ...

Dr Peter O’Meara has joined La Trobe’s Bendigo campus as professor in rural and regional paramedicine to head up the new paramedics course at the university’s Rural Health School (LRHS). “Professor O’Meara is the first person in Australia who has ...

Coffee king and commerce graduate Phillip Di Bella has been appointed adjunct professor of Griffith Business School. Di Bella will teach entrepreneurship to postgraduate and undergraduate students and share the secrets of his success. Vice- chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor and ...

Academics have limited influence on public policy because they don’t give bureaucrats what they need, says Australia’s top public servant. Policy-makers in government turn to think tanks and consultants for evidence to base their policies on, because academic research is ...

One of the first reports to make sense of the catastrophe facing Japan urges the country to reconsider nuclear power. Two Australian-based researchers are the lead authors of a well-received international report on the nuclear crisis threatening Japan. Adjunct Professor ...

Government targets for inclusive education will not be achieved under current pathways arrangements, says NSW TAFE's deputy director-general. Present arrangements for integrating VET and higher education will never deliver the government's ambitious plans for enrolment and SES participation, says TAFE ...

Higher education research moved away from multivariate studies in the 1970s because the thrill of big data was rarely matched by finding out anything interesting, writes Peter Kandlbinder It is a sad fact that if I had to give most ...