Swinburne University has appointed Linda Brown as deputy vice-chancellor (TAFE). Brown is presently director of Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE (MSIT) in Brisbane. Brown has over 30 years education and business experience in areas such as small business, stockbroking and ...

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has presented Dr Murat Yücel, with the inaugural Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research. Yücel’s in neuropsychology looks into adolescent brain development and the links between adolescent drug addiction and later mental ...

The University of South Australia has been recognised for its approach to working with business to research real problems and find workable solutions. The inaugural Ashley Goldsworthy Award for sustained collaboration between business and higher education was presented to the ...

Dr Sandra Hall from UQ’s Advanced Water Management Centre has been named the inaugural Queensland Young Water Professional of the Year. The award was presented by the Australian Water Association. An expert on the microbiology of wastewater treatment, Hall completed ...

Non-education graduates will receive fast-tracked teaching qualifications under a new federally funded scheme to entice top graduates back into schools by recruiting high-flying university students whose career plans involve courts, clinics and corporate HQs – not classrooms. Education minister Julia ...

At least 30 Australian university senior academics and staff members were in Mumbai at the time terrorist attacks, with at least one staff member trapped for an extended period of time in the Oberai Hotel in Mumbai. A delegation of ...

Australian universities need to look within for agents of change. But they also need to externalise their view of the world by benchmarking different aspects of their operations from outside higher education. In a plenary session of an Australian Learning ...

Two university teachers whose “outstanding teaching qualities” made it impossible to separate them have been recognised as joint winners of the Prime Minister’s University Teaching Award in 2008. Associate Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, from the modern history at Macquarie University, and ...

Australian universities might fly high in the eyes of US citizens, but a move by the influential US News & World Report to adopt the THE/QS global rankings could ultimately draw attention to the questionable methodologies used to rank them. ...

The Fair Work Bill, introduced into parliament last week by workplace relations minister Julia Gillard, might change universities’ tactics when they square off against the unions. But it won’t overhaul the game, according to the Australian Higher Education Industry Association ...