The Group of Eight has appointed Margaret Heagney to a new national student equity convenor role in which she will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating the group’s equity activities and the national advocate for the Go8 on equity issues. ...

Carnegie Mellon University has appointed Terry F Buss as the new executive director of the H John Heinz III College in Adelaide. Previously, Buss was the distinguished professor of public policy at the school. Before joining Heinz College two years ...

Eye care leader Professor Brien Holden from the Brien Holden Vision Institute at UNSW and Professor Kovin Naidoo from South Africa, have been jointly awarded the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award for Africa 2010 at the regional World Economic Forum in ...

Professor Suzanne Cory, the immediate past director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, is the new president of the Australian Academy of Science. Cory was director of the WEHI from 1996 to 2009 before she retired ...

The University of Tasmania has announced the appointment of the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Professor Millard (Mike) Coffin has most recently served as director of research at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, an ...

Toby Miller is on a mission to make conferences and conference goers more aware of their environmental impact. I have been involved for some years now in several large professional associations of academics, crossing several disciplines. I’ve chaired book award ...

NZ’s chief science advisor has called for more government investment in R&D, but given the cash-strapped economy, it might not be a message the government want to hear. New Zealand business and the government have under-invested in R&D and need ...

Twelve new teaching fellows enhance the university experience for local and international students Psychology is booming. In Australia, about 15 per cent of all university students take it as a first-year subject, and increasingly elect to take it in later ...

The Victorian government’s focus on families and health left little in the way of announcements for VET and higher education. The Victorian government tipped $91.2 million into the VET sector last week, including $32.3 million for a program to boost ...