User:George Maxwell Brown

Dr Brown has developed both an international and national reputation in the area of quality assurance and accreditation within the higher education system of Australia. He has been featured in a variety of Australian and overseas publications and has published widely regarding his work surrounding the protection of Australia's higher education system. For the last five years, Dr Brown has provided an information service to all state & territory higher education divisions on the status of unrecognized providers of higher education in Australia. His work in the area of degree/ diploma mill activity has given rise to Dr Brown being the leading authority in the Asia Pacific area re-the prevalence of unauthorised higher education credentials and their providers.

Dr Brown has held a number of senior positions within the higher education sector of Australia. These include Manager of Degree Programs for Regency Hotel School, the International College of Hotel Management, and Academic Director for Le Cordon Bleu International and Eynesbury Institute of Business & Technology. He is currently Academic Director for Amadeus Education based in Sydney, New South Wales.

Dr Brown's formative education was undertaken in the United Kingdom; his secondary education was completed at Collège Beau Soleil and Collège du Léman in Switzerland. He holds a Bachelor of Business and a Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of South Australia, a Master of Educational Management from The Flinders University of South Australia and a Ph.D. from The University of Adelaide.