Bond University

Bond University

Coat of Arms of the Bond University
Motto	Forever Learning
Type	Private, not-for-profit
Established	1987
Chancellor	Annabelle Bennett, AO
Vice-Chancellor	Tim Brailsford[1]
Undergraduates	c. 2,900 students
Postgraduates	c. 1,200 students
Location	Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Campus	Suburban
Website	www.bond.edu.au

The Bond University is a private not-for-profit university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

History

The University was established at the initiative of Alan Bond, the founder and Chairman of Bond Corporation and Harunori Takahashi, President of EIE International. The University's development was funded via a joint venture between Bond Corporation in Australia and the Japanese entity, EIE International.^[2] In 1987, the Parliament of Queensland granted Bond University university status via the passage of the Bond University Act.^[3] The University commenced teaching in May 1989 with an initial intake of 322 students.^[4]

In 1991, EIE acquired Bond Corporation's share of the company development that controlled the land on which the University buildings were constructed and the surrounding development lands.

The campus was acquired by Bond University Ltd in its own right in August 1999.

Campus and facilities

Arch building

The Bond University campus was conceived and developed by master planner Daryl Jackson of Jackson Architecture with significant input from Queensland architect Robin Gibson. The signature Arch building was designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

Bond University at Sunset

The campus features a series of Faculty sandstone buildings centered around man-made Lake Orr. In 2008, the Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development Building was officially opened by the Hon. Julia Gillard^[5] and was the first in Australia to achieve a 6 Star Green Star – Education PILOT Certified Rating for design by the Green Building Council of Australia.^[6]

Other recent additions to the campus facilities include:

• An $8.4million extension to the Legal Skills Centre, situated within the Law Faculty; officially opened by Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, in March 2011.^[7][8]
• The Balnaves Foundation Multimedia Learning Centre, named in honour of University benefactor, Dr Neil Balnaves, AO – a $3.4million technology-rich student facility opened in March 2010.^[9][10]
• The ADCO Amphitheatre - an outdoor amphitheatre and Alumni Court sponsored by ADCO Constructions - opened in September 2009.^[11]
• The Macquarie Trading Room, opened by the Hon Anna Bligh in May 2007, providing students with a simulated trading environment, including live ticker screens and market data from 18 Bloomberg terminals.^[12]

In 2006, former Prime Minister John Howard opened the $20 million Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine building (though the first intake of students started in May 2005), housing a complete set of lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, specialised clinical rooms and laboratories. A brand new purpose-built anatomy laboratory was added in 2010.^[13][14]

The $16.2 million Soheil Abedian School of Architecture building was designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham and opened in October 2013 and sits adjacent to the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development building.^[15]

The 48-hectare campus also includes a Sports and Recreation Centre, with Olympic-size swimming pool, gymnasium, multi-purpose sports hall, squash/tennis/beach volleyball courts, and rugby/soccer fields. Construction is currently underway for a new sport and recreation centre to be completed in September 2016.

It is serviced by TransLink bus routes and bike paths, with buses also running between the campus and Varsity Lakes and Robina railway stations, and to the Gold Coast shopping centres Robina Town Centre and Pacific Fair.

Bond offers private or shared accommodation on-campus and provides accommodation services for those seeking off-campus accommodation.^[16]

The John and Alison Kearney Library services the University in two locations on campus, the Main Library and the Law Library.^[17]

Organization

Student Centre, 2015

Bond University Limited is a company limited by guarantee. It does not have shareholders. The University's status as a not-for-profit organisation is confirmed in the Constitution of Bond University Limited.

Governance The governance arrangements provide for the Company, with a membership of 30 members, to appoint the University Council, which is the board of directors of Bond University Limited. The Chairman of the board is the Chancellor of the University.

The Chief Executive Office of the University, the Vice-Chancellor and President, is in turn responsible to the University Council. The peak academic body of the University, the Academic Senate.

The governance activities of Council are supported by the Constitution of the Company and the Bond University ACT 1987 which gives statutory authority to the University and confirms its university status. The University is constituted as a Company limited by guarantee and is subject to the provisions of the Corporations Act as an unlisted public company.^[18][19]

Academic faculties

• Bond Business School
• Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
• Faculty of Society & Design
  • Abedian School of Architecture
  • School of Psychology
• Faculty of Law

Also part of the Bond University campus is Bond College – offering university pathway programs^[20] – and the Bond University English Language Institute.

Academic profile

Ratings and performance

In the independent 2012 Good Universities Guide Bond University was the highest rated Australian university, receiving the maximum five stars across the most key performance indicators.^[23][24]

The University was ranked equal 31st in the 2010 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings which assessed Australian universities' research activity and quality.^[25] The 2010 ERA report ranked the Bond University Faculty of Business as world standard in the research field of Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, placing Bond in the top 10 universities in Australia.^[26] The Faculty also achieved above world standing for research in the business and management sub-category, and a world standard ranking in the economics field.^[26]

According to the Australian Financial Review's most recent Boss MBA Rankings (2013), Bond ranked #1 for student satisfaction and among the top 5 MBAs and top 3 Executive MBAs in Australia. Also, according to the QS Worldwide University Rankings, Bond University achieved 101-150 Ranks in the "Accounting and Finance" subject. ^[27] Students representing the University’s Faculty of Law won four international mooting competitions in the period April 2011 – February 2012:

• The International Criminal Court Moot, The Hague, Netherlands (April 2011) ^[28]
• The Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Hong Kong (April 2011)^[29]
• The Beijing Foreign Studies University Cup Moot Court Competition, China (June 2011)^[30]
• The D.M. Harish Memorial Government Law College International Moot Court Competition, India (February 2012)^[31]

Research centres

Bond University has established a number of interdisciplinary University Research Centres.

• University Research Centres enhance the University's reputation for quality research output and research training.
  • Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice
  • The Collaborative Research Network for Advancing Exercise and Sports Science
• Faculty Research Centres are major contributors to the Faculty Research activity. They undertake research activities including securing external research funding, producing quality research outputs and HDR supervision.
  • Centre for Actuarial and Financial Big Data Analytics
  • Centre for Autism Spectrum Disorder (CASD)
  • Centre for Comparative Construction Research
  • Centre for Urology Research (CUR)
  • Clem Jones Research Centre for Stem Cells & Tissue Regenerative Therapies

Sport

Sports teams in national and state-level competitions based at Bond include the Queensland Country team that plays in the National Rugby Championship,^[32] the Bond University Breakers rugby club that plays in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition, and the Bond University Bullsharks club that plays in the Queensland Football Association Division 1 (QFA Division 1) competition.^[33]

Facilities on campus include:^[34]

• 50 metre Olympic Waveless Swimming Pool
• Boxing Circuit Training Room
• Golf and Cricket Practice Nets
• AFL, Rugby and Soccer Fields
• Sauna and Spa
• TRX Suspension Training Studio
• Sports Hall
• Squash Courts
• Tennis Courts
• Weights Room

The Bond University Student Association (colloquially referred to as BUSA) is the supervising body for sport at the University. It is the advisory body to almost 30 sports clubs on campus and assists with the University's participation in intervarsity sport on a regional and national level.^[35] Bond University was named the overall champions at the 2011 Northern University Games (NUG) in July 2011,^[36][37] and went on to be named Australian University Sport Per Capita Champions at the Australian University Games in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015.^[38][39][40]

High school competitions

High School Mooting Competition The Bond University Faculty of Law conducts an annual mooting competition involving student representatives from secondary schools around Australia. The competition has expanded from eight schools in its inaugural year of 1989 to current numbers of well over 120 schools. It is the only national competition of its type.^[41]

Bond University Film and Television Awards The Bond University Film and Television Awards (BUFTA) is a short film competition open to any year 11 or 12 secondary school student in Australia.^[42]

Notable people

The current and eighth Chancellor of the University since 2016 is Annabelle Bennett, AO, a retired Judge of the Federal Court and academic.^[43] The current Vice-Chancellor and President of the University since January 2012 is Tim Brailsford.^[1]

See also

• List of universities in Australia

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bond University.

• Bond University
• Campus Map
• Bond University Student Association

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