UK universities will likely need to learn lessons from Australia on addressing funding shortfalls and creating commercial opportunities from research if they are to prove their worth to sceptical politicians, according to a vice-chancellor who has become the latest to move between the two countries.
Aston University’s newly installed vice-chancellor, Aleks Subic, hopes his time in leadership positions at RMIT University and Swinburne University of Technology will equip him well as he gets to grips with familiar challenges on the other side of the globe.
