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Embedding ethics in practice

While nurses and healthcare professionals frequently top the list of the most trusted professions, it is critical for universities to challenge the status quo of ethics education, says one ethicist. One would argue with the proposition that healthcare professionals ought ...

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Inquiry call to help house students

A NSW parliamentary inquiry has backed calls for transport concessions for all international students, noting that this will help them find cheaper accommodation. With the new semester approaching, housing affordability remains a significant concern for  students. The inquiry also recommended registration ...

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American privates on parade

We have dominated the Asia-Pacific campus playground but there’s a bigger kid ready to move in Back in the 1990s and noughties, America's leading public universities watched Australia's success with envy as we educated hundreds of thousands of full-fee paying ...

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The NZ push for results continues

The re-election of the Nationals in New Zealand means some in the education system will have to get used to more accountability. “Here we go again …” is sung lustily at one New Zealand post-election event while at another “The ...

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Humanities miss out in CRC grants

The hard sciences have once again been the big beneficiaries from the latest round of new funding for Australian Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs). Just a fortnight after the intensive second round interviews, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator ...

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OER university gains momentum

The Open Education Resources Tertiary Education Network (OERTen) is an international innovation partnership of like-minded institutions, collaborating on the implementation of the OERuniversity (OERu) with the aim of providing more affordable access to higher education.  At the UNESCO Global Forum ...

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‘Txting’ is bad for literacy levels, sez who?

Evidence suggesting texting is damaging to children’s literacy levels is inconclusive say education students Daniel Milne and Niki Preston. The causal relationship between communication technology – primarily text messaging - and declining literacy rates has been the topic of much ...

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