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Scientists have confirmed the second case of a virgin birth in a shark. In a study reported today in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female blacktip shark in a ...

In the second and concluding article, Katherine Polkinghorne helps universities negotiate their way around Chinaese-Australian cooperative structures.   As discussed in Campus Review last week, the Chinese education sector is highly regulated and increasingly scrutinised by the Chinese government, particularly ...

At least five universities will pay management-initiated, non-union increases, ranging from 2.1 per cent to 4.5 per cent in 2009, while EBA negotiations across the sector stumble in a period of uncertainty in the lead-up to the Bradley review and ...

International education may be the undisputed heavyweight of Australia’s export service industries, netting $13.7 billion last financial year alone. But earnings even of this magnitude could be dwarfed by the industry’s flow-on benefits, according to new research commissioned by IDP ...

Australia’s publicly funded researchers, already vying with their international peers for competitive grants, may soon run into competition from a new quarter – museums, libraries, galleries and herbariums – after innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler urged funding bodies to ...

The recent Review of Export Policies and Programs has significant implications for the post-secondary education sector, even though none of its 73 recommendations specifically refer to it. However, with a central theme of expanding Australia’s productive potential while removing the ...

There are those who place a $2 each way bet once a year on the Melbourne Cup and others who lose the family home at the casino. But betting on the Nobel Prize – which plenty of online sites allow ...

Innovation review chair Dr Terry Cutler’s report, ‘Venturous Australia’ contains much to please universities – but not their commercialisation specialists. Some have lamented that Cutler made no recommendation for an early stage technology development fund to replace Commercial Ready Plus, ...

Is a British Council equivalent appropriate for Australia, asks Michael Fay.   The International Education Association of Australia is calling for a new vision for international education and a British Council-style body to drive it (CR, 26.08.08). IEAA is seeking ...

Collaboration between doctors, nurses and allied health professionals is very much on the national agenda, but there’s a long way to go before it’s accepted as the norm. Jeremy Gilling reports. Imhotep, the first physician known today by name, lived ...