News Articles for Andrew Deeks

The federal government has finalised the international student allocations for 2026, with Western Australia receiving 10 per cent of the additional places for universities.

A Perth-based businessman has donated $100 million to Murdoch University's veterinary school, which will be used to overhaul the facility.

Some Western Australian universities have weighed in and welcomed the federal government's increased threshold for international students' intake for 2026.

The higher learning institutions have a medium to high-risk dependency on international students' fees, an audit reveals.

A bioplastics innovation hub aimed at placing WA at the forefront of the national war on plastic has been unveiled at Murdoch University, in partnership with the CSIRO.

The boss of Western Australia's new food research epicentre near Pinjarra wants to help establish research centres in regional towns to drive agricultural innovation.

A new food and beverage manufacturing facility has been unveiled within the Food Innovation Precinct of WA for businesses to develop and produce products on a commercial scale.

Murdoch University building Boola Katitjin, designed by Lyons with Silver Thomas Hanley, received top prizes at the 2023 National Architecture Awards.

Former director general of the Department of Planning Lands and Heritage Gail McGowan will be appointed Murdoch University's new chancellor and the first woman in the role.

University mergers could be on the table as an independent review of the state's higher education system is set to canvass prospective changes to the sector's structure.

Murdoch's vice-chancellor talks to Business News about the university's recently overhauled 2030 strategy.

Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Ben Younger, Tony Gallagher, Andrew Deeks, Brendan Harris, Sue McCarrey, and Rod Eddington.

Murdoch University has officially named its Building 360 development.

Reforming childcare and higher education policy shape as top priorities for Labor in its first term in government.

After a decade spent in Europe, Andrew Deeks' homecoming heralds a period of renewal for WA's second-oldest university.

Andrew Deeks, a former engineering professor and head of school at the University of Western Australia, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Murdoch University.