Past B-HERT Activities
Skilling Australia Summit (10-11 August 2010, Melbourne) download program
Sustainability at Work Forum—Embedding and mainstreaming sustainability (4 August 2010, Melbourne)
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 Sydney)
The Mining Industry and Higher Education: ICT, Technology, Skills - the Changing Face of Mine Operations & Management (20 July 2010, Perth - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
The 2nd Annual Regional Tertiary Education Forum (28 April 2010, National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide)
The 8th Annual Higher Education Summit (29 - 30 April 2010,
National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide)
download program & registration form for the Higher Education Summit and Regional Tertiary Education Forum (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.
