Professor Jan Thomas has been appointed as deputy vice-chancellor of The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus. Actively engaged with the higher education sector for the last 10 years, most recently she has been a member of the Department ...

Dr Alan McPhail has joined CQUniversity as dean of the School of Engineering and Built Environment based at Gladstone. For the last couple of years he has taught at CQUniversity Sydney and coordinated courses in computing systems and data communications. ...

ACU’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has appointed Tim Scrase as associate dean (research) and professor of sociology at the North Sydney campus. He was formerly director of the ARC Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies, an interdisciplinary ...

The University of Queensland’s UQ College is now up and running, following appointment of its first chief executive officer, Rod Arthur. Based at UQ Ipswich, UQ College will expand options for school-leavers and mature-age students who want a UQ qualification ...

The director of one of the UK’s largest arts festivals has been appointed as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival, founded by The University of Western Australia. Jonathan Holloway, currently artistic director and chief executive of the 238-year-old ...

The Mayan calendar has doomsday scheduled for 2012. The end of the internet as we know it will come even sooner. Beverley Head reports. July 2011. That’s the date by which analysts expect that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority will ...

Income support has already improved, and lobby groups want more. But don’t hold your breath. Student income support is emerging as a key issue for higher education lobby groups, despite substantial reforms to the system earlier this year, with both ...

The good news is, international enrolments are growing strongly. The bad news is, not in Australia. The Australian-based global education and training company Navitas has recorded a bumper year, with revenue up 18 per cent and net profit up 31 ...

The AQF review is heading towards its final deadline as the battlelines rage on several fronts. Masters degrees continue to throw multiple spanners in the works for the Australian Qualifications Framework Council as it forges ahead with finalising a revised ...