The University of Melbourne has welcomed the decision of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) to lift work bans and return to the enterprise bargaining table.
Vice-Principal (Human Resources) Mr Nigel Waugh says the University is looking forward to the resumption of bargaining talks which were disrupted by the NTEU’s move to industrial action earlier this [...]
Former Dean of Science Professor Liz Sonenberg will join Melbourne Research part-time in the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Collaboration) and will have oversight of development of the University Research Institutes and implementation of a strategy to manage research infrastructure.
Professor Sonenberg will take up the appointment from 1 August 2009. She is “looking forward [...]
Justice Susan Crennan of the High Court of Australia has been elected a Deputy Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
Justice Crennan is currently serving a second term as a member of the University of Melbourne Council, having previously served from 2003 to 2005.
Welcoming Justice Crennan to her new role, the University’s Chancellor the Hon Alex [...]
University of Melbourne staff and students are encouraged to join the Harmony Walk, supported by the Premier John Brumby, to reaffirm to the world Victoria’s strong support for multiculturalism. The walk aims to bring Victorians together to recognise and celebrate the enormous contribution ethnic, cultural and religious communities have made to the state.
The Harmony [...]
Members of the University community are invited to contribute responses to Refining Our Strategy the recently-released discussion paper that explores possible refinements to the Growing Esteem strategy.
“In Growing Esteem we made a commitment to review all programs on a three year cycle, with the aim of sharpening our institutional priorities. Even if the strategy [...]
An interdisciplinary University team has won first prize in the KDD cup, an annual international data-mining competition.
The team was ranked first of 453 entrants, which included entries from major industry research teams such as IBM.
“Data-mining, as the name suggests, is concerned with extracting useful information from data, typically when there is lots of [...]
The University’s Festival of Ideas opened to a packed auditorium on the evening of 15 June as people came to listen to Nobel Laureate and University Laureate Professor Peter Doherty give the keynote speech at the opening of the Festival which ran until 20 June.
Opening the Festival, University Chancellor Alex Chernov said it “amply demonstrates [...]
The University will train some of Australia’s top graduates to teach in challenging school environments and help raise student achievement.
Through a new Federal Government partnership, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education will design and deliver the curriculum for the groundbreaking Teach for Australia program announced by Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard on Wednesday 17 June. [...]
By Genevieve Costigan
The inspiring story of Indigenous opera singer and member of the Stolen Generation Deborah Cheetham and an analysis of racial stereotyping in Australia by Dr Carmen Lawrence were the highlights of the University of Melbourne’s inaugural Indigenous Oration, ‘Defining Shepparton’.
University Chancellor Alex Chernov opened the Oration held on Wednesday 20 May in Shepparton. [...]
Professor Antonia Finnane of the School of Historical Studies is interested in the social history and material culture of China over the last 500 years. She has published articles and books in on Chinese urban history, with particular reference to Yangzhou; on the history of clothing and fashion in China; and on the Jewish refugee [...]
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