[Herdsa] [HERDSA]: News on Wed 30th July 2008

[Roger Landbeck]

Dear List Members

Things are quiet on the News front this week, only three short items.

1) CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR THE 2010 HERDSA CONFERENCE

After hosting conferences in two regional areas (Rotorua and Darwin), we are
seeking expressions of interest to host the HERDSA 2010 Annual Conference in
a major Australian city, particularly Sydney or Melbourne. HERDSA
conferences are high profile events which explore policy, research, trends
and issues relating to higher education and its development. The conferences
are high quality events which attract delegates from many different nations.
All interested parties or consortia are asked to forward their interest or
queries to Shelda Debowski c/e HERDSA, PO Box 27 Milperra  NSW  2214 or
email office at herdsa.org.au by August 25, 2008.

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2) NEW BOOK FROM HERDSA

During the opening session of the recent Rotorua conference a new book that
had been sponsored by HERDSA was launched by the President. The details are
as follows:

`Making a Place. An oral history of academic development in Australia'.
Edited by Alison Lee, Catherine Manathunga, Peter Kandlbinder.

It is available from the HERDSA Office @ AUD25 plus p&p.

The oral history is based on interviews with those involved with the early
days of academic development in Australia such as Barbara Falk, Ernest Roe
and Ingrid Moses.

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3) AUDIT REPORT AVAILABLE

An Audit Report of Southern Cross University was released on Wednesday 23
July 2008.

The report can be downloaded from the following link:

http://www.auqa.edu.au/qualityaudit/universities/ 

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Roger Landbeck
List Moderator