The University of Melbourne Faculty of Education Dean’s Lecture series, 16 October 2007 The global positioning of Australian higher education: Where to from here? Simon Marginson * Professor of Higher Education Centre for the Study of Higher Education * Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Email: s.marginson@unimelb.edu.au web including downloads: http://www.cshe.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff_pages/Marginson/Marginson.html