The University of Melbourne presents Investing in the Future: Renewing Australian Tertiary Education

Speakers

Date Topic  

Mon 30 June

1. What does Australia need from its tertiary institutions, now and in the future?

Chair

Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC
Chair, Higher Education Review

Speakers

Professor Glyn Davis AC
Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne

Professor Stephen Parker
Vice-Chancellor, The University of Canberra

 

Mon 21 July

2. The Review of Australian Higher Education: A panel analysis and discussion

Chair
Professor V. Lynn Meek
Director, LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management

Speakers
Mr Mike Gallagher
Executive Director, Group of Eight

Professor Sandra Harding, Vice-Chancellor, James Cook University

Professor Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology

Mr Conor King, Institutional Strategist, Victoria University

 

Mon 28 July

3. What should be the political economy of tertiary education in the next decade and beyond?

Chair
Professor Allan Fels AO
Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government

Speakers

Professor Ross Milbourne
Vice-Chancellor, University of Technology, Sydney

Mr Tom Bentley
Director of Applied Learning, Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)

Professor Greg Craven
Vice-Chancellor, Australian Catholic University (ACU National)

Mon 4 August

4. Performance standards and indicators: How do we improve tertiary education?

Chair

Mr Peter Noonan
Panel member, Higher Education Review & Director, Peter Noonan Consulting

Speakers

Professor Geoff Masters
CEO, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Professor Richard James
Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE)


Mon 11 August

5. How can universities maximise their role in research and innovation?

Chair
Professor Simon Marginson
Chair of Higher Education, CSHE

Speakers

The Hon. Evan Thornley MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier

Emeritus Professor Mary O'Kane, Executive Chairman, Mary O'Kane & Associates

Coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the LH Martin Institute for Higher Education and Management

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