New ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young - media conference, 1 Oct 2010

Media conference at The Australian National University to announce the appointment of Professor Ian Young as the new Vice-Chancellor. Professor Young is joined at the media conference by Chancellor Professor Gareth Evans. This video was recorded on 1 October 2010. Professor Young has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Swinburne University of Technology since 2003, during which time it has entered international rankings for the first time, doubled its revenue, more than doubled its research citations, and increased significantly the number of staff with a PhD. He has previously held senior academic positions at the Universities of Adelaide and New South Wales, James Cook University, and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie in Hamburg. Long active in Australian higher education policy and administration, he was appointed by the then Minister for Education, the Hon Julia Gillard, as the sector's representative on the Australian Qualifications Framework Council. He is also presently Chair of Education Australia Ltd and a Director of IDP Education Pty Ltd, the world's largest recruiting agency for international students, as well as a Director of Universities Australia, Open Universities Australia. He has written extensively on issues including international education collaboration, research funding, the linkages between vocational education and higher education and models for educational funding. Professor Young is one of the most cited civil engineers in Australia ...



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