Australian universities need to stop bypassing Brussels when they do business in Europe, says Brendan Nelson. The European Union has developed into a potent and coherent structure, and Australian tertiary education leaders need to factor Brussels in when they’re trying ...

The real beauty of sending top Australian researchers to Europe, Austrade says, is luring top students down under. We’re sitting in a University of Bergen lecture room. It’s about 10am and daylight is starting to seep through the clouds and ...

Group of 8 critics are disappointed over the ongoing questioning of the Bradley review, writes Dani Cooper. The Group of 8 has been accused of “self-interest” in its latest attacks on the Bradley review and its call for deregulation of ...

UA’s chair has been elected to head the governing body of a unique OECD think tank. Professor Peter Coaldrake, the Queensland University of Technology vice-chancellor and Universities Australia chair, has been given the leadership of a unique Organisation for Economic ...

Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Russell Crawford has been appointed President of the Australian Council of Deans of Science (ACDS). Crawford is Dean of the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences at Swinburne, a position he has held since 2004. ...

Associate Professor David Laurence has accepted the position of the inaugural Mitsubishi chair in sustainable mining practices at the University of New South Wales School of Mining Engineering. As chair, Laurence also becomes the founding director of the Australian Centre ...

Open Universities Australia (OUA) has appointed Mr Sam Weiss as chairman and Mr David Phillips as an independent director. Weiss replaces outgoing chair Peter Wade, who retired in October after 10 years in the role. Weiss served as an independent ...

Tim Hannan, a senior lecturer from the School of Psychology at the University of Western Sydney, has been elected as a general director on the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) board of directors. The APS is the largest professional association for ...

The University of the Sunshine Coast has signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism to help establish tourism educational institutions and plan strategic policies for sustainable tourism. “There is big potential for USC, short and long-term, ...

The first law doctoral scholarships to be offered by the University of Technology, Sydney have been named after Australia’s first female Governor-General and human rights advocate, Ms Quentin Bryce AC.The doctoral scholarships will be offered by the UTS Faculty of ...