The Vice Chancellor in Australian Universities: Understanding Leadership Beyond ‘Bad Apples’ and ‘Unicorns’

Industry needs universities and vice versa

Today we have approx. 1 billion Internet connections and more than 3 billion mobile phone subscribers. Both numbers are steadily increasing. Information fl ows around the world instantly through electronic media. Today, people send more than 1500 emails per person per year, and the distance or the size of the mail does not increase the cost. One can send a person’s annual accomplishment of crea...

Finding good in the bad and vice versa.

DONALD KENNEDY’S EDITORIAL “GOOD NEWS—AND BAD” (13 JAN., P. 145) on the intelligent design Dover, Pennsylvania, court decision and the South Korean stem cell scandal overlooks some of the bad news in the good and the good news in the bad. The fraud perpetrated by at least some members of Hwang’s research group is indeed bad news. But the good news is that the fraud was caught very soon after pu...

Good, bad and ugly: Exploring the Machiavellian power dynamics of leadership in medical education

Introduction: Medical education requires participation of variousstakeholders and this contributes to power dynamics operating atmultiple levels. Personality traits of an individual can affect thesmooth execution of the educational programmes and eventuallythe professionalism of the environment. With the increased focuson leadership traits in medical education and collaboration inhealth care se...

How Australian universities fund the student experience

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