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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 [...]

15 April 2019 Major ABDC Journal Quality List Review is Underway The Australian Business Deans Council has announced the chairs of the eight panels that will rank academic journals in its major [...]

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 [...]

To access the full ABDC Journal Quality List 2016, please click on the link below: ABDC Journal Quality List 2016

ABDC announces the recommendations to be applied to next year’s review of the ABDC Journal Quality List.

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 [...]