NSW Australian of the Year, Professor Larissa Behrendt, has been named the first Chair of Indigenous Research at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Indigenous rights lawyer, academic and author has led research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning ...

Professor Wayne Hein is to take over as head of the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at James Cook University. He was recently appointed as Dean of Veterinary Science. Hein spent a few years working in veterinary public health.  “I ...

Angela Magarry has been appointed executive director of The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). Magarry has a strong background in advocacy, policy and government relations with senior level experience in government, and non-government sectors. For the ...

Plans for new affordable accommodation for needy students at one Sydney university have been cancelled because of recent federal funding cuts.quo; needs as well as availability of accommodation including whether it was university managed, in partnership or privately managed. UA ...

Keeping modern data centres powered and cooled is not a trivial exercise writes Beverley Head The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer at the University of Melbourne represents the pointy end of university computing today. But the power it provides could well ...

A new national framework for assessing research is proving challenging to universities in the United Kingdom, too. Changes to national research assessment in the UK are causing jitters amongst English universities, with the concerns raised similar to those here regarding ...

A choked school leaver pipeline is keeping indigenous students away from Australian universities – but a buoyant mentoring program says it has the answer. An upbeat mentoring program operating in 10 universities has set its sights on closing the gap ...

Vice-chancellors are upbeat about their prospects under the Structural Adjustment Fund, even though only one university has so far hit pay dirt. All but one of Australia’s universities will have to wait until late this year to find out whether ...

First it was TEQSA’s turn. Now the vocational regulator’s legislation appears to be headed back for the drawing board. The government may be forced to recreate the legislation for the national VET regulator (NVR) from scratch, with legal advice suggesting ...

There is confusion within the sector about just what role the AQF will play as part of the threshold standards of the yet-to-be legislated TESQA. "Masters Degree (Extended)" will be the new formal label for what are commonly called professional ...