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Bushfire-smart houses A PhD project at the UWA has resulted in the development of a house which can sustain itself in a bushfire without human intervention. The concept, developed by Dr Ian Weir, is expected to have far reaching implications ...

2006-2008 1. Citations: 1499 Authors: Jemal A, Siegel R, Wade E, Murray T, Xu JQ and Thun MJ Title: Cancer Statistics, 2007 Source: CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicans, 57(1): 43-66, January-February 2007 2. Citations: 428 Authors: Nissen SE and Wolski ...

The future of training packages is up for discussion during a month of national consultations starting in Adelaide this week. The ‘VET Training Products for the 21st Century’ project – a comprehensive review of national VET policy, jointly run by ...

Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the 21st century. The tension between economic flexibility for business and social stability for workers is set against the backdrop of ...

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Internships should be integral to dentistry education, says Jeremy Gilling Dentistry schools, which are funded by the federal government on the same basis as medical schools and receive minimal support from state and territory governments, have substantially higher teaching overheads ...

You can’t deregulate one side of a market and keep the other side in a straightjacket. That’s the essential argument of the vice-chancellors and academic commentators who say that if a voucher-style funding system is introduced, price caps need to ...

Student and university groups have welcomed the federal Government’s half billion dollar handout to students, announced as part of last week’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan. But it won’t substitute for genuine and lasting reform of student income assistance, they ...

Last week, 300 academic and professional staff descended on QUT for a two-day seminar on the first-year experience. Another 400 registered, but couldn’t be accommodated. It’s a fair measure of the increasing interest in, and importance of, the issue. And ...

Australian VET was getting more efficient, productive and inclusive before the current market-based reforms ramped up last year, according to a new Productivity Commission report on government-funded VET provision in 2007. The VET chapter of the 'Report on government services', ...