Past B-HERT Activities

Banking/Finance Round Table (14 October 2011)

Accountancy Round Table: The Future of Auditing (26 Sept 2011)

Inaugural Regional Higher Education Forum (2-3 August 2011)

Banking/Finance Round Table (23 June 2011)

Higher Education Forum—Lifting the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Challenges and Solutions (12 May 2011)

Mining Industry Round Table—ICT, Technology, Skills - the Changing Face of Mine Operations and Management...a conversation worth having (6 April 2011) download Mining Industry Round Table agenda

Big Austalia: Shaping the Future—Round Table Discussion (4 November 2010)

Innovative Australia Summit 2010: Realising Australia's Competitive Future (11 & 12 October 2010) dowload Innovative Australia Summit 2010 program

Sustainability in the Key Professions: Accountancy—Standardising, reporting and yielding enhanced corporate sustainability (30 Sep - 1 Oct 2010) download Sustainability in the Key Professions: Accountancy program

TAFE Directors Australia National Conference: TAFE in the Year of the Tiger (13 & 14 September 2010)

Skilling Australia Summit (10-11 August 2010) download Skilling Australia 2010 Summit program

Sustainability at Work Forum—Embedding and mainstreaming sustainability (4 August 2010)

B-HERT Distinguished Speaker Luncheon - download excerpts
Guest Speaker: His Excellency Ambassador Jeffrey L Bleich, Ambassador of the United States of America to Australia (30 July 2010)

The 2nd Annual Regional Tertiary Education Forum (28 April 2010) & The 8th Annual Higher Education Summit (29-30 April 2010) download Higher Education Summit and Regional Tertiary Education Forum program (542KB pdf)

Academic Workforce in Higher Education Round Table: The operating context for Australian universities in the short, medium and long term (23 November 2009)

Tertiary Sector Round Table: Modelling the Future (16 November 2009)

Workforce Australia: A Degree of Vision (23 October 2009)

Karim Temsamani, General Manager, Google Australia & New Zealand (22 October 2009)

Innovation 2009: Translating Research—New thinking and emerging pathways (22 & 23 September 2009)

Developing the Knowledge Economy: Partnering for innovation & the sustainability of our economy (4-5 August 2009)

Medical Innovation 2009: Exploring the drivers and inhibitors of innovation in medical research, industry and practice (11-12 June 2009)

ICT: Making the Connection Summit 2009 (22 April 2009)

Regional Higher Education Engagement Forum (1 April 2009)

Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE: When Science Means Business (16 March 2009)

VET Round Table Communiqué (12 March 2009)

Professor Ian Frazer—New World: New opportunities, and new challenges, in health care (10 March 2009)

Research Partnerships (10 December 2008)

Innovation 2008: The Future of R&D in Australia (9-10 September 2008)

Building Tomorrow's Engineers Symposium (20 February 2008)

The Business Graduate of Tomorrow Conference: Are we producing highly trained but increasingly poorly educated graduates? (14 March 2007)

Higher Education Summit: Tomorrow's Universities—The Need for Change in Australia (7 June 2006)

Philanthropy Summit: Partnering Tomorrow's Universities—Philanthropy, a Critical Source of Income (17 May 2006)

Emerging Skills Summit: 2020 & Beyond (22 November 2005)

SA Regional Engagement Forum: Collaborative Engagement (7 June 2005)

Post-Compulsory Education: Bridging the Gap Symposium (18 May 2005)

NSW Regional Engagement Forum: Shaping the Future (3 March 2005)

University Governance Symposium: Future Directions (18 November 2004)

IP Management & Knowledge Transfer: Realise, Systematise, Optimise (29 September 2004)

Victorian Regional Engagement Forum: In step with the Community (8 September 2004)

NSW Regional Engagement Forum (13 July 2004)
A one-day forum held at Newcastle.
view brochure (116KB pdf)

QLD Regional Engagement Forum: Smart Progress (23 April 2004)

Higher Education Symposium: Putting Reforms into Practice (25-26 November 2003)

NSW Regional Engagement Forum: Working Together (24 September 2003)

The Challenge of Commercialisation: Turning Research and Ideas into Money (6-7 August 2003)

Victorian Regional Engagement Forum: Engagement = Opportunity (31 July 2003)

A Recipe for Success: How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying (9 May 2002)

The Educational Challenges for Future Australia (October 2001)
A one-day Summit with Minister David Kemp and Shadow Minister Michael Lee, held in Sydney on 31 October 2001.

The Critical Importance of Lifelong Learning (July 2001)
A Seminar held in Sydney on 24 July 2001.

Launch of the Queensland Chapter of B-HERT (June 2001)
This was our first chapter. Launched by the Hon. Anna Bligh, Minister for Education, and the Hon. Paul Lucas, Minister for Innovation and the Information Economy, on 8 June 2001.

Educational Challenges for a Smart State (June 2001)
The first event and official launch of the Queensland Chapter in Brisbane on the 8th June 2001.

Entrepreneurial Australia: Future Australia (30-31 May 2001)

Higher Education Summit (November 2000)
B-HERT convened a one-day Higher Education Summit in November 2000, which was attended (all day) by David Kemp. As an outcome of the Summit we established a number of Task Forces on some key issues for the purpose of producing Position Papers to stimulate discussion.

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