La Trobe has become the third Australian university to be awarded the European Union’s prestigious Jean Monnet Chair for high-level education and research about Europe. The Chair, valued at around $90,000, will be held for three years by Dr Stefan ...

Nigel Palmer is moving to the University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education to take up a position as a research fellow in October. Palmer was national president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) from ...

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will join the University of Queensland in an honorary capacity at two institutes that he helped found. Beattie has been made an adjunct professor in bioscience and nanotechnology with UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and ...

Professor Maureen Simmonds has been appointed as head of the School of Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She joins Curtin from McGill University in Canada, where she was director of the School of Physical and ...

Demand for skilled IT staff is booming, leaving universities to struggle to compete for qualified staff, writes Beverley Head. University IT directors should brace themselves for a period of high employee churn. A survey conducted earlier this year by recruitment ...

The government has made interim appointments of chairs and CEOs of the proposed higher education and VET sectors – much to the relief of both sectors. Respected education figures Denise Bradley and Kaye Schofield will act as interim chairs of ...

While official enrolment stats now reflect a malaise in international education, experts warn of much worse to come. Predictions of a dramatic downturn in international students are starting to show up in the official enrolment statistics maintained by Australian Education ...

The higher education revolution is massively under-funded and the implementation of key areas has gone awry. One of Australia’s most eminent higher education policy experts has given a damning appraisal of reforms to the higher education sector in the wake ...

Bond, Stanford and Queen’s universities are in the running to win a major World Bank tender. Bond University is expecting an imminent green light from the World Bank to host an online postgraduate program on infrastructure management. The course will ...