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VET needs a good understanding of employability skills to build them into teaching and learning says, Kaye Bowman. As Larry Smith suggests, we need to develop and nurture a new understanding of generic competencies (CR,21.10.08). Employers would welcome this. They ...

Elkadi to head architecture and buildingh is in the field of the ecological physiology of vertebrates. Astheimer replaces Professor David Stokes, who will continue at Deakin on a consultancy basis. She will take up her appointment of 9 March. Story ...

As an English professor in a Chinese university, Simon Haines discovers first hand why bi-lingualism is a powerful tool. If you go down to the central district of Hong Kong Island on a Sunday morning you can barely move, even ...

Korean fathers pay high cost for education Korean fathers are being forced into lonely and work-addicted lives in an attempt to give their children an overseas education, according to a report in the Korea Times. Kim Seong-kon, a professor of ...

While engineering enrolments are recovering, concerns remain about the mathematical capabilities of some students, reports Jeremy Gilling.ermediate maths in South Australian schools within two years.” Another fundamental of engineering and science education is access to laboratories, often outside normal working ...

The confidence of engineering deans and industry leaders that the sharp decline in enrolments between 2001 and 2006 would be reversed in 2007 has been vindicated (CR, 03.06.08). Data for 2007 shows a full recovery in enrolments in both bachelor ...

When the Australian Computer Society commissioned a survey of the carbon footprint of Australia’s IT users it found that about 1.5 per cent of all emissions could be traced back to computer use. It’s a figure comparable to the civil ...