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Toss Gascoigne steps down- CHASS announced today that its inaugural Executive Director, Toss Gascoigne, is stepping down from his position. ...
- [Title key: Toss Gascoigne steps down]
- CHASS - the next step
- The Council for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences will review its strategic objectives and focus, four years after its formation, the CHASS President Professor Stuart Cunningham announced today. ...
- [Title key: CHASS - the next step]
- Call for a National Council for Design and Creative Practice
- "Between a hard rock and a soft space: design, creative practice and innovation" will be launched at the Boathouse Restaurant in Canberra on Wednesday July 9 at 9.45 am. Media are invited to attend. ...
- [Title key: Innovation]
- Research that delivers. Directly
- Australia is failing to capitalize on the ability of its researchers in the most fundamental area: their power to solve problems. A new report from the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), calls for a three-prong solution to this issue. ...
- [Title key: Rigor and relevance]
- A sober budget, but pressure mounting for 2009
- Good news for the tertiary sector is the creation of the Education Investment Fund (EIF) of $11 billion. Both the interest and capital from this fund will be used to restore crumbling infrastructure in the university system. ...
- [Title key: Federal Budget 2008]
- $$ value of PhD scholarship in freefall
- A five-point plan to improve the value of the PhD program in the humanities, arts and social sciences in Australia has been presented to Government. ...
- [Title key: PhD scholarship]
- Excellence in Research: a CHASS response
- CHASS welcomes the Government's announcement yesterday (Tuesday) about Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), the new system to assess research quality in the university sector. ...
- [Title key: Excellence in Research]
- Review of innovation systems 'long overdue'
- Professor Stuart Cunningham, President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, said that CHASS sees this as an important step to enable Australia to move beyond an old 1960's smokestack view of innovation. ...
- [Title key: Review of innovation systems]
- New appointments strengthen hand of ARC
- CHASS today (Monday) welcomed the announcement of a new Advisory Council for the Australian Research Council (ARC). Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr has appointed six researchers to provide strategic and policy advice to CEO Profe ...
- [Title key: Australian Research Council]
- CHASS celebrates Three Ministers
- CHASS President Professor Stuart Cunningham said the Ministerial makeup was a strong indication that the Government was determined to make education a cornerstone of its first term in office. ...
- [Title key: Three key Ministers]
- Education revolution?
- CHASS announced today (Tuesday) that it has written to Shadow Minister Kim Carr on ALP plans to replace the Research Quality Framework with a new 'streamlined, transparent, internationally verifiable system'. ...
- [Title key: Education revolution?]
- Building a strong future for Australian research
- Federal Labor's key research initiatives, announced during yesterday's Campaign Launch, highlight our commitment to a research revolution. Australia is falling behind the rest of the world in investment in research and only a Rudd Labor Government will address this prob ...
- [Title key: ALP Research initiatives]
- Labor announces its vision for the Arts
- Federal Labor today released a comprehensive arts policy framework, New Directions for the Arts. New Directions for the Arts represents the most detailed arts policy document released by either side of politics in the lead up to the election, and confi ...
- [Title key: ALP Arts policy]
- Chief Scientist and PMSEIC: review overdue
- The Prime Minister has been asked to review the role and functions of two of the Government's prime advisory bodies, the Chief Scientist and the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC). ...
- [Title key: Chief Scientist and PMSEIC]
- Budget welcome - pity about cluster funding
- CHASS today welcomed many aspects of the Federal Budget in the areas of education and the arts. Professor Stuart Cunningham, President of CHASS, said that the Government's investment in education, training and research targets several important areas of need. ...
- [Title key: Pity about cluster funding]
- RQF Chairs announcement
- CHASS today welcomed the announcement of the Assessment Panel Chairs for the Research Quality Framework (RQF). Professor Stuart Cunningham, President of CHASS, applauded the appointment of Panel Chairs enjoying such a high profile in the research community. ...
- [Title key: RQF Chairs announcement]
- RQF "new opportunities for HASS"
- The announcement that the government will go ahead with the Research Quality Framework (RQF) has been welcomed by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), but with a degree of caution. ...
- [Title key: RQF 'new opportunities for HASS']
- Big issues: a job for boundary-spanners
- A new report released today details the benefits to Australia of encouraging big collaborative research projects, to provide solutions to the big problems the country faces. ...
- [Title key: Job for boundary-spanners]
- New President for CHASS
- Professor Stuart Cunningham was elected President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), at the AGM in Sydney this week. ...
- [Title key: New President for CHASS]
- Innovation in a post-smokestack industry era
- CHASS today released its submission to the Productivity Commission inquiry into science and innovation in Australia. Professor Malcolm Gillies, President of CHASS said the submission outlined a number of ways that innovation could be encouraged. ...
- [Title key: Post-smokestack industry era]
- Never mind the quality, feel the width...
- CHASS has devised and tested a unique approach, based on research quality, impact and capability. This is set out in the report, 'Measures of Quality and Impact of Publiclyfunded Research in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences'. ...
- [Title key: Measures of quality and impact]
- Where's Asia?
- It is time to look again at Australia's national research priorities, according to Professor Malcolm Gillies, President of CHASS. The Priorities nominate four key areas where Australian researchers should concentrate their efforts. Research funds are channelled into the ...
- [Title key: National research priorities]
- CHASS welcomes PMSEIC appointment
- CHASS today welcomed the appointment of a humanities specialist to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC). Professor Iain McCalman, former President of the Academy of the Humanities, has been appointed to PMSEIC for three years. ...
- [Title key: PMSEIC appointment]
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