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CHASS welcomes new Gillard ministry: 13 December 2011; The Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences President, Professor Sue Willis welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement of changes to the Ministry and Cabinet.'The decision to re-integrate science and research with higher education under an expanded Departmen ...; [Title key: Gillard ministry]
ERA Workshop: 14 September 2011; The outcomes of the 2010 round of the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative have revealed mixed results from research undertaken in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences disciplines. ...; [Title key: ERA Workshop]
Identifying priorities for a Cultural Policy for Australia: 28 July 2011; A draft National Cultural Policy framework will be released by the Federal Government this month outlining reforms to Australia's commitment to the arts, its creative industries and the broader areas of cultural life and value in innovation and heritage and social cohes ...; [Title key: NCP Workshop]
CHASS and ASSA welcome improvements to the ERA rankings: 2 June 2011; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and Academy of Social Sciences in Australia welcomes the government's decision to drop prescriptive journal rankings in the ERA assessment exercise. ...; [Title key: ERA rankings]
2011-2012 Federal Budget: 10 May 2011; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) welcomes government funding to implement the Inspiring Australia science engagement strategy. ...; [Title key: 2011-2012 Federal Budget]
CHASS welcomes new Chief Scientist - Professor Ian Chubb: 19 April 2011; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences President Professor Sue Willis today welcomed the appointment of Professor Ian Chubb as Chief Scientist for Australia. ...; [Title key: New Chief Scientist]
Conference building links between social science researchers and policy makers at APH: 18 March 2011; The importance of opening up new channels of communication to improve research input into policy development will be highlighted at a conference in Canberra next week, when researchers in the humanities, arts and social sciences put their case to politicians and policy ...; [Title key: Conference building links]
Establishment of new US Commission on HASS welcomed: 1 March 2011; The Presidents of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) jointly welcome the recent decision by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to establish a national Commission on the Humaniti ...; [Title key: US Commission on HASS]
CHASS welcomes new Executive Director - Angela Magarry: 31 January 2011; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences President Professor Linda Rosenman today announced the appointment of Ms Angela Magarry as Executive Director. ...; [Title key: New Executive Director]
Draft arts curriculum is an opportunity for arts rethink: 11 October 2010; The draft arts curriculum for years K-12, Shape of the Australian Curriculum: The Arts, released last week, is an opportunity for educators to radically rethink how the arts are taught in Australian schools. ...; [Title key: Arts curriculum]
Research recognition: 19 August 2010; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences today welcomed the announcement by the Coalition parties that, if elected, they will fund and support the Inspiring Australia strategy for science engagement. ...; [Title key: Research recognition]
Building Bridges: 10 August 2010; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences today welcomed the ALP's commitment, if re-elected, to $21 million funding for the Inspiring Australia science engagement strategy. ...; [Title key: Building Bridges]
2010 election and the policy agenda for the new term of government: 22 July 2010; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Board has flagged four issues for action for the new term of Government and urges candidates and parties contesting the 2010 election to set clear directions for innovation, research and cultural policy. ...; [Title key: 2010 election]
Social sciences support for maths education: 10 March 2010; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences today welcomed the Group of Eightâ€™s Review of Education in Mathematics, Data Science and Quantitative Disciplines, and its frank acknowledgement of the problems caused by the fall in mathematics pa ...; [Title key: Maths education]
Inspiring Australia a strategic breakthrough: 9 February 2010; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences believes the new science communications strategy, Inspiring Australia (released February 8) opens the way for a strong and open relationship between science and society, CHASS President, Professor Linda Rosenman ...; [Title key: Inspiring Australia]
Building bridges to policy makers: 25 October 2009; This week Members of Parliament and Senators will have access to some of the best knowledge in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) through the 2009 HASS on the Hill event. ...; [Title key: Building bridges]
Commitment to Australian researchers: 7 September 2009; The Australian Government's new commitment to using the knowledge and skills of Australian researchers will be a significant tool in meeting the challenges before Australian policy makers ...; [Title key: Commitment to Researchers]
Strenghtening creative copyright: 21 July 2009; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences today said the Productivity Commission's recommendations to reduce copyright protection for publishers and authors were of great concern. ...; [Title key: Strenghtening creative copyright]
Laureate Fellowships to HASS researchers: 22 June 2009; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences today congratulated the 15 world-leading scholars awarded Australian Laureate Fellowships worth around $2.7 million each. ...; [Title key: Laureate Fellowships]
Delivering on the innovation agenda: 13 May 2009; The Rudd Government has used the 2009 Federal Budget to deliver on its commitment to productivity growth through investment in research and innovation. ...; [Title key: Delivering innovation agenda]
Creative arts add strength to national school curriculum: 21 April 2009; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences believe Australia will gain new economic growth and stronger community life as a result of the decision to make creative arts part of the national school curriculum. ...; [Title key: Creative arts add strength ]
Challenges ahead for the arts and Australiaâ€™s innovation system: 15 April 2009; A new paper published this month by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences calls for national leadership to bring the arts into Australiaâ€™s innovation system. ...; [Title key: Challenges ahead for the arts]
Cooperative Research Centre guidelines to revitalise innovation: 3 December 2008; The President of the Council for the Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Linda Rosenman, today welcomed the new Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) guidelines. ...; [Title key: CRC guidelines]
MPs respond to research training challenge: 31 October 2008; Editorial
CHASS urges the Australian government to implement key recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee interim report into Research Training in Australia. ...; [Title key: Research training challenge]
CHASS response to venturousaustralia: 17 September 2008; The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) welcomes the release of the report of the Review of the National Innovation System, venturousaustralia. The Cutler report provides recommendations that highlight the importance of innovation for A ...; [Title key: National Innovation System]
CHASS - the next step: 25 July 2008; 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]
Toss Gascoigne steps down: 24 July 2008; CHASS announced today that its inaugural Executive Director, Toss Gascoigne, is stepping down from his position. ...; [Title key: Toss Gascoigne steps down]
Call for a National Council for Design and Creative Practice: 8 July 2008; "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: National Council for Design]
Research that delivers. Directly: 16 May 2008; 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 - Report]
A sober budget, but pressure mounting for 2009: 15 May 2008; 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: 30 April 2008; 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: 27 February 2008; 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': 22 January 2008; 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: 7 January 2008; 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: 29 November 2007; 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?: 20 November 2007; 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: Research Quality Framework]
Building a strong future for Australian research: 15 November 2007; 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: 14 September 2007; 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: 19 June 2007; 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: 10 May 2007; 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: 18 April 2007; 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": 15 November 2006; 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: 1 November 2006; 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: 20 September 2006; 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: 7 August 2006; 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...: 9 November 2005; 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?: 2 May 2005; 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: 1 March 2005; 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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