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Ms Marita MacMahon Ball

Position:

General Manager 

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Division:

Higher Education 

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Location:

Melbourne 

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Qualifications:

BA (Hons), DipEd Sydney, MA (Comm) Monash

 

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Ms Marita MacMahon Ball

Ms Marita MacMahon Ball joined ACER in 2005 and is responsible for higher education national and international services. Key projects under Ms MacMahon Ball’s administration include undergraduate and graduate admissions test for medicine, law, business and engineering, as well as the general tertiary admissions test: uniTEST for school leavers; and the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT), for mature-age applicants. In addition a number of diagnostic and survey instruments for the higher education sector are managed by Ms MacMahon Ball.

In the international sector Ms MacMahon Ball oversees the management of tertiary selection tests for the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Colombia and Saudi Arabia.

Prior to her appointment at ACER Ms MacMahon Ball held Communication Manager positions in the corporate, philanthropic, health and education sectors. She has lectured in Public Relations courses in the university and TAFE sectors, managed a Foundation program for an Australian university in the UAE, and taught English and History in NSW secondary schools, where she was also a member of the school executive.    

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