The eminent higher education researcher and university educator John Burville Biggs dedicated his university career to helping others understand that it is what the student does that impacts on the quality of learning.
He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to tertiary education, particularly in the fields of curriculum development and assessment.
Although he retired from University of Hong Kong in the late-1990s his ideas on student learning have continued to have a major impact in higher education curriculum development.
