Bond University has announced the nomination of Dr Annabelle Bennett as chancellor. Bennett’s appointment to the role was subject to her being elected as a councillor at Bond’s annual general meeting, which was scheduled for April 19. She would become ...
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The director of the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute, professor Chris Moran, will be Curtin University’s new deputy vice-chancellor, research. Moran will take up the post in August. He was previously the founding director of both UQ’s Centre for ...
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Polly Smart has been announced as the new administrator for Charles Darwin University’s Nhulunbuy campus. An experienced outback educator, Smart – who has officially begun work in the East Arnhem-based mining town – has lived and worked as a governess ...
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The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has appointed professor Stephen Taylor, from the University of Technology Sydney as its inaugural research scholar – a role the council said “has the goal of expanding collaboration between universities and industry”. Most recently, ...
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The University of the Sunshine Coast has appointed professor Jim Lagopoulos as its first director of the Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience – Thompson Institute. Lagopoulos formerly played a leading role in neuroimaging at the University of Sydney and was ...
More »Diplomat returns home to JCU
James Cook University has welcomed on board career diplomat Bill Tweddell as its new chancellor. The Townsville native and former Australian ambassador to the Philippines officially took up the role in late March. Tweddell’s career highlights include serving as ambassador ...
More »Student bodies stand up for fossil-fuel divestment
A group of students got naked and took to the rooftops to call for their university to drop fossil fuel "ass-ets". Others got a meeting with their vice-chancellor, and some were questioning institutional thought leadership. It was all in a week's work ...
More »Deakin Business School earns coveted global accreditation
Deakin University’s Business School has emerged triumphant from a five-year bureaucratic gauntlet with an international accreditation that inducts it into the top 5 per cent of business faculties worldwide. The school has been stamped with and Association to Advance Collegiate ...
More »UniMelb trials keystroke detection system to stop cheats
The stroke of a keyboard is all it takes for the University of Melbourne to detect ghost-written essays under a new anti-cheating system the institution is trialing. Cadmus, developed by UniMelb alumni turned entrepreneurs Herk Kailis and Robbie Russo, is a ...
More »UTS develops English tuition scholarships for North Korean defectors
The University of Technology Sydney has developed Australia’s first scholarship program for North Koreans who have fled to South Korea. About $200,000 has been set aside for five students to learn English through UTS:INSEARCH, the university’s pathways program. The students get tuition for ...
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