Peter Coaldrake becomes a commissioner of the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency. The former QUT VC is the author of the well-regarded review of HE provider category standards, adopted as the basis of Commonwealth policy.

 Clare Pollock (DVC Students) at Flinders U keeps that job while becoming Senior DVC.

 Southern Cross U announces four appointment to its National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine; Matthew Leach (deputy director, education), Romy Lauche (DD, research), Janet Schloss (clinical research fellow), Renea Duigan (GM). They join director Jon Wardle. The centre has $10m from the Blackmore Foundation. Leach joins from Uni SA, Lauche from Sozialstiftung in Bamberg, Germany, Schloss from Endeavour College, and Duigan transfers from SCU HR.