VC Delivers lecture at Mannix College

Monash Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Margaret Gardner has delivered the 2015 Newman Public Lecture at Mannix College.

In front of an audience that included the Chancellor, Dr Alan Finkel and Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University, Professor Glyn Davis (a former Newman lecturer), Professor Gardner spoke of the past and future of education in her presentation entitled “The Golden Years Return: How will we change Australian higher education?”

Professor Gardner said her lecture title was chosen to show that the idea of a past golden age for universities distracts us from understanding the challenges and imperatives facing each new generation of students.

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