THE University of Western Australia has appointed Professor Don Markwell (left) as the deputy vice-chancellor of education. Professor Markwell has been the warden of Trinity College in the University of Melbourne since 1997 and will join UWA in January next year. He is a Rhodes Scholar and a professional fellow of the University of Melbourne’s department of political science. Prior to this, Professor Markwell was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Universty of Oxford lecturer in politics from 1986 to 1997.