Curtin University of Technology’s Muresk Institute has appointed Dr Roger Mandel as agronomy lecturer. Mandel joins Curtin from Charles Stuart University where he has previously taught agriculture and viticulture science and conducted research. He has had a long history in ...

ACU National has appointed Dr Brian D’Netto as the new national head of the School of Business. The appointment follows the completion of an external review of the university’s business and informatics program, which recommended it combine its three business ...

Public good has been reinstated as a key objective of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program, under new guidelines revealed by innovation minister Kim Carr when he announced the latest CRC funding round late last month. Carr said the new-look ...

RSI and gammy wrists might well become a work-related injury as chancellors across the country shake hands with growing queues of graduates lining up to collect their degrees. New Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that the proportion of the ...

The commitment, loyalty and dedication of its staff is one of the great strengths of ACU National, but it is being undermined by under-evolved workforce planning which might leave the university in a demographic lurch in the not too distant ...

While HECS-style loans are being proposed for everybody from drought-stricken farmers to budding athletes, a parliamentary committee wants them converted into donations. HECS debts should be waived for successful research postgraduates in order to encourage students to choose research instead ...

As cannier parents seamlessly guide their children from community day care to public primary school to private high school to Group of Eight university, will the outcomes of the Labor government’s education revolution finally change the nature of the debate ...

The humanities, arts and social sciences have tended to live in a parallel universe to that of innovation policy thinking and processes. But it is my view that the innovation framework gives the arts and humanities the best overarching opportunity ...

While a nod may still only be as good as a wink to a blind horse, VET insiders with even half an eye to the recent public comments of influential policymakers should have a strategic advantage over their more myopic ...

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) outlined future VET funding arrangements during its last meeting of the year, with the Commonwealth, states and territories signing off on a $6.7 billion national skills and workforce development agreement to replace specific purpose ...