One Christmas time, when months of drought
Had parched the western creeks
The bushfires started in the north,
And travelled south for weeks
At night along the riverside,
The scene was grand and strange
The hill fires looked like lighted streets
Of cities in the range
Henry Lawson, from The Fire at Ross’s Farm
The University’s bushfire memorial service at lunchtime on Tuesday 3 [...]
The University of Melbourne has come a long way since teaching began more than 150 years ago with 16 students and three professors – all of them male. Women now make up around 56 per cent of the students and 46 per cent of the academic staff, but the University recognises there are still imbalances [...]
Zoe Nikakis explores the immense number of career options at the Graduate Careers Fair 09 at the Exhibition Buildings on 11 March.
The Graduate Careers Fair is an opportunity for final-year students to explore their options for life after University as graduates.
With 155 companies represented, from GHD for the engineering students through to Arts Hub for [...]
Two University of Melbourne–led Centres of Excellence have been awarded $17 million by the Australian Research Council to continue their ground-breaking work.
Based at the University of Melbourne, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science have received additional funding in recognition of [...]
The University of Melbourne’s inaugural Festival of Ideas – Climate Change/Cultural Change – recognises that Australia is on the sharp end of climate change.
Over six days (15–20 June), more than 50 outstanding thinkers will lead a program that comprises evening keynote lectures which lead on the next day to challenging panel discussions, debates, forums and [...]
What is your unit?
The Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) – Faculty of Economics and Commerce
What is your job title?
Associate Professor and Director – TLU
How long have you been with the University of Melbourne?
18 months
How did you come to work at the University?
I have a PhD in accounting and my research is in accounting education. Before [...]
Zoe Nikakis meets the new editors of the University of Melbourne’s student magazine.
“This is where I belong – these are my people,” Zoe Sanders says of her work at Farrago. Zoe is one of the editors for 2009, and she was elected with Gillian Kilby, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran and Yoshua Wakeham on the Independent Media ticket.
The [...]
Click here to view ‘A new pathway to Arts for Indigenous students’
By Zoe Nikakis
Orientation Week is a heady mixture of fun, and finding your feet – and settling in – at University. Around 7000 new students got their first taste of University life at O-Week 2009, and Zoe Nikakis went along to see what was exciting them this year.
“Want to do the lucky dips at Ikea?” [...]
A new Board has been appointed for the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), under the Chairmanship of Mr Ian McRae, Chair of the Australian Ballet School.
ANAM is a subsidiary company of the University of Melbourne and is managed by an independent board.
The University representatives on the Board are Professor Warren Bebbington, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, [...]
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