UC’s Stephen Parker is putting his money where his mouth is, with work under way to establish Canberra’s own university system. The University of Canberra is going it alone in establishing its own university system – tentatively known as an ...

Metallurgical engineer Professor Stephen Grano will lead the University of Adelaide’s new Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources. Grano comes to Adelaide from the Ian Wark Research Institute at UniSA, where he was research professor of minerals processing, having joined ...

James Cook University vice-chancellor Professor Sandra Harding has been reappointed as a member of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) council for a further five years. Prior to her appointment at JCU, Harding held several senior executive roles at ...

Dr John Rice has been appointed chief researcher at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. Rice will join NCVER after four years at the University of Adelaide as director (research development) of the Adelaide Graduate School of Business. He ...

Macquarie University director of sustainability Leanne Denby has been appointed president of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS), the primary forum for sustainability in the Australian and New Zealand tertiary sector. ACTS’s mission is to promote the integration of principles of ...

UWA’s Winthrop Professor Philip Mead has won the NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Literary Scholarship for his book, Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry. Mead was appointed chair in Australian literature at the university last year. His book ...

John Smyth, professor of education at the University of Ballarat, is this year’s recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) relating research to practice award. Smyth was recognised for interpretive scholarship and his research focus on disenfranchised youth and ...

Heavy-handed government control over the capping of university places misses the point, writes Stuart Middleton. In New Zealand, it is the season of capping ceremonies and all the gushing that goes with that. Last week, I attended a capping ceremony ...

The talk is all of globalisation, but where does national identity fit in the bigger picture. By Christina Slade. On a chilly May Day weekend, we sat in a church hall in Sherborne, in the west country, to listen to ...

The leaders of some of the US’s most prestigious universities want to see open source for publicly funded research become law. Senior academic officers of 27 major US universities have backed a plan for open access to publicly funded research, ...