ON THE MOVE
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DEAKIN
INVESTS NEW
CHANCELLOR
Deakin University
has officially invested
governance, finance,
accounting and
business strategy
expert John Stanhope as its new chancellor.
Stanhope, who has been on the university’s
council since 2012, has been serving
as deputy chair of Deakin’s investment
committee, as well as being a member of its
finance and business affairs committee.
He is chair of Australia Post. Stanhope
was previously a Telstra executive director.
Deakin vice-chancellor Jane den
Hollander said of Stanhope: “My fellow
council members and I look forward
to John’s wisdom and guidance as we
educate the next generation.”
NAKATA RE-JOINS
JCU
STRICTLY SPEAKING | PATCH
James Cook
University has
appointed professor
Martin Nakata pro
vice-chancellor of its
Australian Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Centre.
Nakata will take up the position in early
May. He was the first Torres Strait Islander
in Australia to graduate with a PhD – from
JCU in 1996.
He worked most recently as director of
UNSW’s Nura Gili Centre for Indigenous
Programs, and said he was delighted to be
returning to JCU.
JCU senior deputy vice-chancellor,
professor Chris Cocklin, said Nakata was
“widely acknowledged for his work in
promoting the successful participation of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in
higher education”.
NEW EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
SECRETARY
Education leaders
have welcomed the
appointment of Dr
Michele Bruniges as
the new secretary of
the Department of Education and Training.
Bruniges, who has more than 25 years’
experience in the education sector has
led the NSW Department of Education
since 2011 and has previously held senior
education roles at the federal level.
She will replace acting secretary Tony
Cook from April 4.
Universities Australia chief executive
Belinda Robinson said Bruniges had the
“breadth of experience, insight and passion
for education policy” necessary to be highly
effective in the role.
NEW DESIGN
CZAR FOR UTS
UTS has announced
landscape architect
professor Elizabeth
Mossop will be the
next dean of its Faculty
of Design, Architecture
and Building.
Mossop, who was most recently
professor of landscape architecture and
director of the Robert Reich School of
Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State
University, in the US, will take up her new
post in mid-2016. Mossop is also a founding
principal of Spackman Mossop & Michaels
landscape architects, based in Sydney and
New Orleans, Louisiana.
UTS vice-chancellor Attila Brungs said
the selection panel had been “deeply
impressed by [Mossop’s] commitment to
excellence as well as cross-disciplinary
research, teaching [and] collaborating”.
GO8 PICKS CHAIR
OF INNOVATION
The Go8 has unveiled
businessman and
entrepreneur Simon
McKeon as inaugural
chair of its industry
and innovation board.
The Go8 said the board was a “key plank of
the Go8’s Innovation 2016 agenda”.
Go8 chair and USYD vice-chancellor
Michael Spence said of McKeon: “With
his breadth of knowledge and handson experience, he is exactly the driving
force needed to assist us deliver on the
government’s industry collaboration and
innovation priority policy.”
G08 chief executive Vicki Thomson said
McKeon would provide an “enviable wealth
of private-sector experience to draw on for
guidance and support”.
UC ANNOUNCES
VC FROM CANADA
The vice-chancellor of
Canada’s top-ranked
university, professor
H. Deep Saini, has
been announced as
the successor to the
outgoing University of Canberra
vice-chancellor professor, Stephen Parker.
Saini is now at the helm of the
University of Toronto. He will take up
his new post from September 1, with
Parker due to officially end his UC
tenure on July 1.
Parker said of his replacement: “Professor
Saini comes from a very senior position
in a truly world-leading university and will
be great for the University of Canberra. He
will have my full support as I hand over the
many exciting projects that the university
is undertaking.”
Saini has a background in plant physiology.
Patches have been put to many purposes over the centuries of the word’s use, so that they may “repair, strengthen, protect, or
decorate” a surface (Oxford English Dictionary online). In the 17th and 18th centuries, they could be a form of facial decoration, in
small pieces of black silk or velvet used as a fashion statement, or to cover skin blemishes such as pock marks. By the 20th century,
the patch had become the badge of affiliation stitched onto the uniforms of soldiers and sailors, and a term in prison slang for
the patches on prisoners’ uniforms that would identify them as escapees. These uses of patch underlie the verb patch out, which
in bikie slang means severing connections with the motorcycle club, by “handing in one’s colours”– as well as one’s motorbike
and other assets – reports in Australian newspapers state. This underworld use of patch out coexists with established technical
uses in electronic engineering, where digital circuits may be patched in and patched out to create special sound effects through a
synthesiser. Meanwhile, patch out has surfaced in American slang to refer to making a very quick getaway in a car, when the wheels
spin and leave patches of black rubber on the road. The driver thereby leaves his mark – and chances are he doesn’t intend to return
any time soon.
Written by Emeritus Professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’s Centre for Language Sciences.
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