ON THE MOVE
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TYRELL JOINS TAFE
DIRECTORS
Former Australian
Government
international education
counsellor to Beijing
and Thailand Jen
Tyrell has been appointed director of
international education for TAFE Directors
Australia (TDA).
In a statement announcing the
appointment, TDA chief executive Martin
Riordan praised Tyrell’s “considerable skills in
articulating international education policy” as
part of the grounds for her selection.
“Our TDA members … will benefit from
Jen’s depth of experience through China
and in South-east Asia,” Riordan said.
After holding positions at the Department
of Education and Training’s vocational
education branch, Tyrell has carried out
consultancy work for the Go8 and since
2014 has been director of marketing and
admissions for Nord Anglia School Shanghai.
NEW CHANCELLOR
FOR MONASH
Monash University
has officially installed
Simon McKeon as its
eighth chancellor at a
ceremony carried out
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in late April.
McKeon was recognised as Australian of
the Year in 2011 and has a background as a
social entrepreneur, investment banker, and
champion yachtsman. He succeeds Dr Alan
Finkel, who took up the role of Australia’s
chief scientist in January.
Speaking at McKeon’s installation,
Monash vice-chancellor Margaret
Gardner said of the new chancellor: “[His]
contributions over many years to industry,
education and the community have been
unparalleled and his leadership will be
invaluable for the university.”
UK TECH CZAR
JOINS UniSA
Professor Anthony
Finkelstein has
been appointed
adjunct research
professor at the
University of South Australia’s Future
Industries Institute.
The UK-based Finkelstein, who has
most recently held the position of
chief scientific adviser for national
security to the British Government, will
also continue his present role as chair
in software systems engineering at
University College London, where he
is also a research leader at UCL’s Alan
Turing Institute.
UniSA vice-chancellor David Lloyd
said the appointment underlined the
strength of the relationship between the
two universities and offered enormous
potential to foster globally engaged
research in South Australia.
NEW MEDICAL
DEAN FOR
MELBOURNE
Professor Shitij Kapur
has been unveiled
as the University
of Melbourne’s
new Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and
Health Sciences dean, as well as its assistant
vice-chancellor, health.
Kapur will join UniMelb in October from
King’s College London, where he is presently
executive dean of the Institute of Psychiatry,
Psychology and Neuroscience.
Kapur said of his impending appointment:
“I have been lucky to work in some
world-leading centres of medicine and
the University of Melbourne stands out in
its scope, scale and potential. It will be a
privilege to serve as