Archive for October 15th, 2012
Team use light to measure micro distances
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | An international team of researchers has found a new way to measure quantum distances with light. Thanks to laser technology it is possible to measure distances using light, but even at small scales light fails to detect changes. Now in More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | An international team of researchers has found a new way to measure quantum distances with light. Thanks to laser technology it is possible to measure distances using light, but even at small scales light fails to detect changes. Now in More..
Scientists make breakthrough in MS management
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News, Research |
Targeting a molecule involved in the activation and movement of white blood cells could prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), University of Adelaide researchers have found. The scientists focused on a molecule known as PI3Kgamma (PI3K) and have shown More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News, Research |
Targeting a molecule involved in the activation and movement of white blood cells could prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), University of Adelaide researchers have found. The scientists focused on a molecule known as PI3Kgamma (PI3K) and have shown More..
Help guide for foreign students
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | International, News | Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke has released principles to promote and protect the human rights of international students at the Australian International Education Conference, calling on organisations working with overseas students to ensure basic human rights are protected. “These principles More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | International, News | Race Discrimination Commissioner Helen Szoke has released principles to promote and protect the human rights of international students at the Australian International Education Conference, calling on organisations working with overseas students to ensure basic human rights are protected. “These principles More..
Call for southern space agency
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | Australia should establish a federated space agency with countries in the southern hemisphere to maximise the commercial return from our space research and technology, RMIT Associate Professor Lachlan Thompson says. Thompson told the 12th Australian Space Science Conference that a More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | Australia should establish a federated space agency with countries in the southern hemisphere to maximise the commercial return from our space research and technology, RMIT Associate Professor Lachlan Thompson says. Thompson told the 12th Australian Space Science Conference that a More..
Six Aussie unis ranked in the world’s top 100
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | The recently released Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings shows Australia has six universities in the top 100, which is up from four since last year. There are 19 local institutions in the THE rankings for 2012/13. Melbourne is More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | The recently released Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings shows Australia has six universities in the top 100, which is up from four since last year. There are 19 local institutions in the THE rankings for 2012/13. Melbourne is More..
Chance for reform slips away
By Stuart Middleton | 15th October, 2012 | Comment, VET |
Mergers and rebuilding in the Christchurch school area show the system was broken before the quakes hit. The Christchurch earthquakes and all that has gone with them have placed demands on a city that are alongside the devastation that two More..
By Stuart Middleton | 15th October, 2012 | Comment, VET |
Mergers and rebuilding in the Christchurch school area show the system was broken before the quakes hit. The Christchurch earthquakes and all that has gone with them have placed demands on a city that are alongside the devastation that two More..
Tweeting a Greek tragedy
By Rohan Price | 15th October, 2012 | Comment | Students have a heavy enough load without adding the wasteful burden of social networking. University students believe themselves to be Sisyphus. Condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, a second-year arts/law undergraduate despairs – after all More..
By Rohan Price | 15th October, 2012 | Comment | Students have a heavy enough load without adding the wasteful burden of social networking. University students believe themselves to be Sisyphus. Condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill, a second-year arts/law undergraduate despairs – after all More..
Use of ketamine questioned
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | News | A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related More..
Take care in teaching teachers
By Neil Hooley | 15th October, 2012 | Comment | The signature pedagogies of teacher education are changing but they should not be allowed to be overly affected by political or social forces. While criticism of teachers seems to have waned somewhat, the focus of discontent has shifted to teacher More..
By Neil Hooley | 15th October, 2012 | Comment | The signature pedagogies of teacher education are changing but they should not be allowed to be overly affected by political or social forces. While criticism of teachers seems to have waned somewhat, the focus of discontent has shifted to teacher More..
Retail sector pays the price
By John Mitchell | 15th October, 2012 | Comment, VET |
An award-winning training group fears employers will soon not be able to afford to train many staff. Over the past 12 months the national media revealed that “VET reform” opened the door to shonky providers. However, a story that has More..
By John Mitchell | 15th October, 2012 | Comment, VET |
An award-winning training group fears employers will soon not be able to afford to train many staff. Over the past 12 months the national media revealed that “VET reform” opened the door to shonky providers. However, a story that has More..
Researchers feel chill winds
By Antonia Maiolo | 15th October, 2012 | Finance |
Universities fear any funding freeze will cost up to 1700 jobs and send valuable projects overseas Recent reports suggesting the federal government may be about to freeze grants on research are a cause for grave concern, says Professor Jill Trewhella More..
By Antonia Maiolo | 15th October, 2012 | Finance |
Universities fear any funding freeze will cost up to 1700 jobs and send valuable projects overseas Recent reports suggesting the federal government may be about to freeze grants on research are a cause for grave concern, says Professor Jill Trewhella More..
By Campus Review | 15th October, 2012 | Comment, News | We’ve got lots of students wanting to do gaming design and no one wanting to do IT or computing now, but we’ve got thousands of jobs in IT and computing, and about three in game design and lots of graduates.” More..