A financial economist noted for heading an award-winning cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship education program in the UK has been appointed dean of La Trobe University’s Faculty of Law and Management. Since 2007, Professor Leigh Drake has been dean of Nottingham University Business ...

Sydney Institute has appointed David Riordan as its institute director. Riordan has over 26 years experience working in the VET, higher education, schools and corporate sectors. After managing, on behalf of TAFE NSW, the project to train the workforce of ...

Former senior Commonwealth public servant, Neville Stevens has been appointed chair of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) committee. Stevens is chair of NICTA and ac3. He worked in the Australian Public Service for 30 years, including five years as deputy ...

La Trobe University historian and prize-winning author, Professor Marilyn Lake, has been elected president of the Australian Historical Association (AHA). A two-year posting, she takes over from Professor Martyn Lyons from UNSW. Lake is a fellow of the Australian Academy ...

Professor Paul Glasziou, an expert in evidence-based medicine, has joined Bond University from the University of Oxford to take up the position of director of the newly formed Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice. Glasziou was previously director of the ...

Jack Ah Kit, the NT’s first Aboriginal government minister, will head a new group that will advise Charles Darwin University on indigenous matters. Ah Kit will chair the 10-member vice-chancellor’s indigenous advisory council, which will provide high-level advice to Professor ...

Student services might get their own funding stream, with a more sympathetic Senate appearing likely after the election. A re-elected Labor federal government will put the student amenities and services fee back on the agenda, education minister Simon Crean said ...

Melbourne University last week released its response into a review of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music – but it still has to plug the $6 million annual funding gap. The upcoming federal and Victorian elections appear to ...

The slump in visa grants has been limited to a few markets – but it’s early days yet. The crash in international student enrolments so far has mainly been limited to the Indian subcontinent, according to the latest student visa ...