The director of UQ’s Global Change Institute, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has been selected as the coordinating lead author of Chapter 30, ‘Open Oceans’, to the working group II (WGII) contribution of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Professor Michael Clements will join Swinburne University in the role of professor of industry-engaged learning (IEL). He will lead the design and implementation of IEL programs and build on the university’s links between IEL and research. He has previously held ...

Dr Teresa Lacono has been appointed professor and head of the Department of Allied Health at the La Trobe Rural Health School in Bendigo. Iacono is the first of four new LRHS professors to be appointed. Prior to joining La ...

The Fulbright Commission has announced a new scholarship for masters students in Australian-American public policy. The Anne Wexler scholarships which will be awarded annuallly and valued at up to $140,000 each. There is one each for an Australian and a ...

Where did all the teacher librarians go? Darragh O Keeffe reports. Miffy Farquharson had a busy day yesterday. The head of the senior years’ library at Mentone Grammar School in Victoria met with several teachers to discuss upcoming assignments and ...

Australia offers more professional library courses per head of population than just about anywhere. Perhaps it’s too many, writes Jeremy Gilling. The library and information services discipline is becoming an increasingly complex area as the thirst for information – from ...

Gillard might be our first female PM. She’s also the first PM in 35 years to step up from the education portfolio. But what does it mean? Last Wednesday was just like any other June day in Canberra. No heat ...

Voluntary redundancies at Ballarat may be just the tip of the iceberg as the drop in international students starts to bite. The University of Ballarat has offered staff voluntary redundancies, and a range of other flexible work arrangements such as ...

Conventional wisdom is that job booms lead to empty lecture rooms. But the biggest spikes in university applications have come from Queensland and Western Australia. The increased appetite for higher education this year has been most pronounced in Queensland and ...

The Nationals pledge $1 billion to rural and regional education, but the reality might be a lot less. At the recent 90th anniversary federal conference of the National Party, its leader Warren Truss spoke the words that would warm the ...