The Council is chaired by David Murray, former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank and currently Chair of the Future Fund. Members of the Council have been drawn from across the business and academic sectors and bring with them extensive experience in their respective fields.
Mr David Murray (Chair), Chair, Future Fund.
Ms Lisa Paul, Secretary, Department of Education, Science and Training.
Ms Heather Ridout, CEO, Australian Industry Group.
Professor Ashley Goldsworthy, CEO, Business-Higher Education Round Table.
Professor Margaret Gardner, Vice-Chancellor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Professor Jeanette Hacket, Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University of Technology.
Professor Fred Hilmer, Vice-Chancellor, University of New South Wales
Ms Stella Axarlis, Member of the National Youth Careers and Transition Advisory Group, former Deputy Chair, ANTA Board.
The Council’s role is to advise the Minister on ways to increase collaboration between the higher education sector and other public and private business, industry, community and educational organisations, particularly:
The Council also has scope to advise on:
- facilitating the involvement of small and medium enterprises in collaborative arrangements;
- promoting regional engagement between universities and business and industry;
- how universities currently integrate, develop, and teach employability skills to undergraduates, and how graduate employability skills might be assessed and reported upon;
- initiatives to further facilitate engagement, knowledge transfer, and the commercialisation of intellectual property; and
- initiatives to further facilitate private and business philanthropy to universities.
The following BIHECC reports are available. Please note that the reports and BIHECC's advice have not been accepted or endorsed by the Australian Government. Hardcopies, where available, can be obtained from the BIHECC secretariat.
Business Case for Knowledge Transfer
Philanthropy
Graduate Employability Skills
Knowledge Transfer and Innovation
BIHECC has made the following submissions:
30 October 2007 – Canberra
28 August 2007 – teleconference
19 June 2007 - Canberra
28 March 2007 - Sydney
5 December 2006 - Sydney
8 November 2006 - Melbourne
11 September 2006 – Canberra
28 February 2006 - Canberra
14 November 2005 - Sydney
22 August 2005 - Sydney
29 April 2005 - Sydney
15 November 2004 - Sydney
13 August 2004 - Sydney
Postal address:
BIHECC Secretariat Loc 033
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
GPO Box 9880
CANBERRA CITY ACT 2601
Telephone: (02) 6219 3479
Facsimile: (02) 6123 7387
Email: bihecc.secretariat@deewr.gov.au
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