Professor Christopher Lawrence has been appointed the first Dean of Indigenous Engagement at Curtin University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering. In the role Lawrence, a proud Nyungar (Whadjuk and Ballardong) man, will help extend cultural understanding and open up career ...

The University of Sydney is reportedly the latest to “review its real estate portfolio,” amid a trend of selling off non-core property in a hot market. Australia’s oldest university is still evaluating its options that could result in it selling ...

VILLE HARVARD-BOUND University of Wollongong Senior Professor Simon Ville will take up the Australian Studies Chair at Harvard University for the 2022–23 academic year. Ville said he was thrilled to learn he would take up the Chair, which has previously ...

YOUNG INNOVATOR AT USC Professor Ross Young has joined USC as its new deputy vice-chancellor (Research and Innovation).Young was previously the executive dean of the Faculty of Health at QUT. He said he was keen to amplify the impact of ...

A nine-year-old “physics genius” has been accepted to study physics at the University of New South Wales after completing senior high-school level maths and physics.  Gold Coast primary school student Allegra Clarke will commence her first physics subject online later ...

The competition to enrol new students has continually pushed tertiary institutions to strengthen their future student teams – to listen and take a more consultative approach. With continual COVID disruptions, the competition has now got tougher. Indeed, high performing customer ...

Renée Leon has been appointed Vice Chancellor of Charles Sturt University. Leon will become CSU's fifth VC since its inception in 1990 and she will start her role, based at the Bathurst campus, on September 1. A former senior public ...

BRUNGS TO LEAD UNSW Professor Attila Brungs will move across town to become UNSW Sydney’s new President and Vice-Chancellor as of 31 January next year. Brungs, the current vice-chancellor and president of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), will succeed ...

Even at universities, the career progression of female academics may lag that of their male counterparts, with new research from Edith Cowan University revealing that male and female academics experience significantly different career paths. A big reason behind this is ...

LEGGAT GOES INTERNATIONALJCU professor Peter Leggat hits the international stage as he assumes the presidency of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM). Leggat is the first Australian to take on the top job. “We now have 1000’s of members ...