Macquarie University has appointed Professor Gail Whiteford to the newly created position of pro vice-chancellor (social inclusion). Whiteford joins Macquarie from Charles Sturt University where, as well as being professor and chair of occupational therapy, she has held various roles ...

The Australian-American Fulbright Commission Board last week announced the appointment of Dr Joe Hlubucek as the new executive director for the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. Hlubucek was posted to the Australian Consulate-General in San Francisco in 1995-98 and to the Australian ...

Charles Sturt University has appointed Associate Professor Will Letts as the inaugural head of the CSU Ontario School of Education. Amid the success of the teacher education program at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Ontario, the first head of the ...

Charles Darwin University’s new executive director of finance and asset services Rob Brelsford-Smith comes to Darwin from New Zealand’s Auckland University of Technology (AUT), where he worked for the past nine years. Brelsford-Smith’s MBA focused on incorporating indigenous people into ...

Dr Julian Trollor will take up the chair of intellectual disability and mental health at UNSW in February 2009 as associate professor. The NSW government provided $2.1 million over five years to create the position, which will work closely with ...

Dr John Daley has been appointed to the position of CEO of the Grattan Institute, a new national public policy institute being established in Melbourne, Daley’s experience spans policy, academic, government and corporate roles at the University of Melbourne, the ...

Professor Ed Byrne was last week named as incoming vice-chancellor of Monash University, replacing Professor Richard Larkins next July. Since early last year Byrne has been vice provost (health) at University College London. Before that Byrne was dean of medicine, ...

Ten south-east Asian countries will attempt to harmonise their higher education systems by 2015, along the lines of the European Union’s Bologna process. The move, which could have significant consequences for the Australian international education sector, is ambitious given the ...

A Federal Court finding this month will prevent universities from bypassing negotiations with their staff by mounting technical arguments about who’s entitled to raise disputes, according to the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). But the Australian Higher Education Industry Association ...

James Cook University’s Singapore campus has been accused of kowtowing to the country’s political leaders and denying a staff member freedom of speech, after one of its contracted lecturers became embroiled in politically related legal proceedings. But the university says ...