Peter Andrews tells how the bankruptcy of Bond University's founders, Alan Bond and Japanese businessman Harunori Takahashi, meant there was no available funding for the Science School. He recalls being invited in 1991 to take up a posting at the University of Queensland by its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Wilson.
Peter Andrews describes hearing a radio interview in 1988 with Professor Don Watts, the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Bond University, and deciding he wanted to be involved in the country's first privately-owned university. He tells how he moved to Queensland shortly afterwards to become the first Dean of Science and Technology at Bond University.