Despite some risks universities are moving further into the cloud writes Beverley Head Cloud computing is the third most significant issue exercising the minds of Australian university Chief Information Officers (CIO) in 2010, lagging only funding and governance issues. That ...

Consultations with key stakeholders in the proposed new national regulator will start soon Government consultations with key stakeholders on the detailed legislation establishing the new national regulatory and quality agency for higher education will start within the next few weeks. ...

Thesis explores international students’ influence on Australian policy Dr Eugene Sebastian from Monash University has won an International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) award for his PhD thesis which investigated international students’ contribution and influence on the development of Australia’s ...

Professor Robert Stable announces his farewell to Bond The Federal Government needs to be a lot clearer on its intention to encourage student mobility Bond University vice-chancellor and president Professor Robert Stable says. He was talking to Campus Review following ...

Professor Peter J. Little, AM, B Pharm has been appointed Professor of Pharmacy and Foundation Head, discipline of pharmacy, and group leader, diabetes complications group, Health Innovations Research Institute, RMIT University, Bundoora. He will take up the position on the ...

Nicci Hilton, an award-winning science teacher, has won a Churchill Fellowship that will take her to the United States to pursue her vision of making classroom science more engaging for students. Hilton, who graduated as a science teacher from the ...

The chief executive of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Professor Geoff Masters has announced the appointment of two senior educational researchers who will head newly-established ACER research divisions. The new appointments are Dr Sue Thomson who becomes Head ...

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has taken a strategic step to ensure that influential education research will continue well beyond the retirement of baby boomer academics, with the appointment of Professor Barbara Comber to help mentor early and middle-career academics. ...

Professor Christine Halse, the Director of the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Educational Research (CER), has been appointed as an ethics expert to the European Commission on Framework Program for Research and Technological Development. Halse, who is also President ...

Professor Faith Trent AM, FACE from Flinders University has been awarded the prestigious Mary MacKillop Medal by the Australian College of Educators (ACE) SA Branch in recognition of her valuable contribution to education. As a champion of social justice, Mary ...