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The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) announces 2022 winners of the ABDC Network Awards, which recognise and reward innovation and excellence in Australian business schools.

Australia’s business schools are boosting their focus on climate change by appointing a Climate Action Fellow to coordinate their actions nationally and liaise with industry, the not-for-profit [...]

by ABDC Immediate Past President, David Grant, in The Australian. 14 September 2022. [...]

Tell us: What are you doing? Improving how you communicate your academic research, relevance and expertise

February 2022 Acknowledgments The ABDC would like to thank the JQL Review Steering Group for preparing these recommendations about the frequency, methodology and scope of the JQL Review — [...]

ABDC Declaration on Climate Action Context There is scientific consensus about the need for urgent action to rapidly reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, if not before. Through the UN [...]

Australia’s business schools have a lot to offer https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/australias-business-schools-have-a-lot-to-offer/news-story/eea9e584d7334e3bbc9b717849913f73 Last [...]

Australian Financial Review https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/how-green-is-your-business-degree-20220127-p59roz Alexandra Cain Feb 8, 2022 Graduate business schools now routinely [...]

Professor Keryn Chalmers has been appointed the next President of the Australian Business Deans Council, the peak body of Australia’s university business schools.  Professor Chalmers has [...]

9 December 2021 Today the ABDC announces that Professor David Grant will be leaving the role of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Business) at Griffith University in April 2022. Consequently, he will step [...]

Today the ABDC has opened a consultation on the frequency, methodology and scope of the Journal Quality List.

The ABDC recommends the following immediate-term strategies: Implementing a mechanism to open borders to international students, where state, territory and federal governments collaborate with [...]

26 March 2021. Link: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/education/like-spotify-unis-must-let-students-curate-courses-20210324-p57dle ‘Like Spotify, unis must let students curate courses’ Pivot [...]

Torrens University Faculty of Business and Hospitality was endorsed as a new member of the ABDC at the Council’s AGM in February, taking the ABDC’s membership to 39 university business faculties [...]

Report: The Future of Australian Business Schools In collaboration with QS, the ABDC has released a report titled The Future of Australian Business Schools. The report highlights the results of [...]

Winners of the Inaugural ABDC Network Awards Announced The ABDC is delighted to announce the winners of our inaugural Network Awards, which recognise and reward innovation and excellence in [...]

The ABDC made a submission to the Australian Research Council (ARC) review of Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and the Engagement and Impact Assessment (EI). Key points: As the [...]

Opinion piece by ABDC President, David Grant, and ABDC International Education Network Deputy Chair, Peter Woods, in The Australian on 23 September 2020. [...]

For the first time, ABDC will be awarding outstanding work in International Education, Research, Teaching and Learning and Professional Management. Nominations are open until 30 September [...]

21 July 2020 Australian university business schools, who graduate just under half of the country’s international university students, welcome the Federal Government’s changes to international [...]

27 May 2020 Why Aren’t We Saving a Vital National Asset? Australian university business schools are calling on the Federal Government for a national strategy to stop higher education – a vital [...]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/why-arent-we-saving-a-vital-national-asset/news-story/9ab924227c0c29d90258dbc9393c8645 Why aren’t we saving a vital national asset? The [...]

The following opinion piece by ABDC President, David Grant, appeared in The Australian newspaper and online on 29 April 2020. It can be viewed here.   Close to the Point of No Return: Australian [...]

ABDC Media Release 29 April 2020 Call to Bring International Education Back from the Brink Australian university business schools, who graduate more than half of the country’s international [...]

In preparing the submission for the House of Representatives Inquiry, the ABDC sought feedback from participants in ABDC’s National Indigenous Business Summer School (NIBSS) initiative. NIBSS is [...]

With the Australian travel ban extended by one week, Australia’s university business schools continue to convey their support for students and academic colleagues who are impacted by the outbreak [...]

I am pleased to announce that the 2019 Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List and its accompanying Report are now available here. The 2019 List follows an extensive review [...]

AUSTRALIA RECENTLY ADOPTED A NEW METHOD TO ASSESS THE IMPACT AND ENGAGEMENT OF ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS. THIS CHANGE HAS FORCED THE NATION’S UNIVERSITIES TO RETHINK THE WAYS THEY INCENTIVIZE THEIR [...]

The peak body for Australia’s university business schools welcomes the appointment of Hon Ken Wyatt AM to the Indigenous Affairs portfolio and calls on business schools to find ways to boost the [...]

An opinion piece on engagement and impact by ABDC President, Professor David Grant, and Professor Andrew O’Neil, Chair of BardsNet (ABDC’s research network) in The Australian on 17 [...]

The ABDC is broadly in agreement with the points raised in the Australian Qualifications Framework Review Discussion Paper  and remains committed to the ongoing development of the AQF so it can [...]

Professor Bill Glick is the former Chair of the board of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB), the global association of business schools.  He is a [...]

Education Minister Tehan's ARC grants proposal should make taxpayers more, rather than less, concerned about the future of Australian research

63% of ABDC members participated in the survey

The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) joins peak academic bodies in expressing strong concern over revelations that former Federal Education Minister Birmingham vetoed 11 applications, [...]

Professor David Grant, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business) at Griffith University, will be the next President of the Australian Business Deans Council, which represents the country’s 39 university [...]

How do employers judge a job candidate’s work readiness? What Does Work Ready Really Mean? Business and industry face two intractable realities – a faster rate of change and a more competitive [...]

The review of the ABDC Business Journal Quality List has been submitted and is now being considered by the ABDC’s Business Academic Research Directors’ Network (BARDsNet). Earlier [...]

What can Australia learn from the UK experience of the Research Excellence Framework ? To see the interactive story click here. Academic researchers are judged by publication of their work in [...]

ABDC has responded to the Higher Education Standards Panel recommendations on the impact of professional accreditation in Australian higher education and opportunities to reduce the regulatory [...]

Interviews with industry leaders provide insights into views of business schools and their graduates. ABDC members have now received the ABDC report on Industry-Business School Engagement, which [...]

Professor Marie Wilson on managing workforces aged 19 to 79 in a business world of increasing age diversity. The recent University of South Australia study on age discrimination in the workplace [...]

ABDC says universities have the capacity to educate the number of accountants required but the number of graduates is falling well short of workforce demand. The Federal Government’s projected [...]

ABDC Research Scholar, Professor Stephen Taylor, on the need to include teaching and other business school activities in national measures of impact and engagement. The Australian Industry Group [...]

The ABDC has called for a more consistent, systemic approach with predictable funding and rigorous evaluation of initiatives in the Federal Government review of the In its response to the [...]

The ABDC is calling on the Federal Government to have ‘An Economically Prosperous Australia’ as a National Research Priority and to include business and economics research in the National [...]

As part of the higher education reform consultation, ABDC has called on the Federal Government not to take any actions that will risk the high international reputation of our business schools. [...]

In its response to the ARC Impact Assessment Consultation Paper, ABDC emphasises a better understanding of the barriers – both from an academic and industry perspective – to [...]

The ABDC is pleased to announce the completion of an interim review of the ABDC Journal Quality List. Up until 17 August, eligible parties can provide feedback on the review outcomes. The ABDC is [...]

In its submission to the Department of Education and Training’s consultation paper on the proposed new research block grant arrangements, ABDC has raised concerns about some of the proposed [...]

Up until COB 30 May ABDC is calling for submissions for its interim review of the ABDC Journal Quality List. Leading up to the next full review of the ABDC Journal Quality List (due to begin in [...]

ABDC is concerned not just with the role business schools play in providing a large proportion of Australia’s graduate labour force, but also the ability of Australian businesses to pursue [...]

ABDC is concerned not just with the role business schools play in providing a large proportion of Australia’s graduate labour force, but also the ability of Australian businesses to pursue [...]

The Australian business school community is very interested in seeing stronger links between business and universities, especially with respect to ensuring effective leadership and management of [...]

ABDC will establish a new subsidiary network to support those in the most senior general, operational or professional resource management role in member schools. Business faculties and schools, [...]

In our submission to the Department of Education and Training, ABDC recommends retaining accountants on the 2016-17 Skilled Occupation List (SOL) to meet term labour market demand for [...]

Responding to the research policy review, ABDC supports the call for policy to support innovative, well-resourced and diverse business research – vital for Australia’s future prosperity and [...]

Responding to the Productivity Commission’s draft report on removing export service barriers, ABDC says Australia needs to do more to support sustainable growth of our international [...]

In our submission to ACOLA, ABDC calls for a research training system that enhances Australia’s capacity to deliver innovative and industry collaborative research. In our submission to the [...]

ABDC advocates for the ASIC Business Register sale process to include conditions that would enable better academic access to the data currently collected by ASIC. ABDC advocates for the ASIC [...]