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Monthly Archives: August 2012

Industry seeks to restore confidence

The ACCI wants vocational education and training reform to be guided more by industry demand, rather than providers and students. Public confidence in the VET system has again been shaken, as a result of more reports of alleged shonky providers ...

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Some miss out in Skills for All

The devil is in the detail for South Australia’s new training initiative The South Australian government’s $194 million roll out of the Skills for All program has stalled as the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology (DFEEST) has ...

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Curtin health services post

Curtin University has announced Carolyn Lawrence as the new manager for the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) clinics based at the Bently Campus and other sites across Western Australia. Lawrence’s career has focused on health service delivery. After initially ...

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Noticeboard number 16.

Roff kicks off new role Former Wallabies winger Joe Roff has begun his new role as chief executive of the University of Canberra Union (UCU). The position was created as a result of UCU’s new strategic plan and direction to ...

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Greens oppose increase in student fees

The Greens higher education spokeswoman Senator Lee Rhiannon said her party would oppose the push by the University of NSW vice-chancellor and chairman of the Group of Eight, Professor Fred Hilmer, to give universities the power to set course fees. ...

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Look, no hands!

The concept of driverless cars may sound like science fiction, but researchers say autonomous vehicles may soon hit our roads.  Imagine a world, in which your car would drive you from point A to B. You wouldn’t have to fret ...

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Brits worry about EU student bill

The inability of a large number of European students to pay their UK university loans has sparked questions in Parliament. British Conservative backbenchers are pressuring the government over funding for European Union students at UK universities as the latest figures ...

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Olympic boost for vitamin sales

Apart from bringing us up-to-date footage of all the sporting action, the Olympic Games broadcast has presented viewers with a plethora of vitamin supplement advertisements that have the backing of professional athletes competing at the games. Professor Bryan Lukas from ...

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Chink exposed in the seafood chain

Researchers fear that the size of shellfish and other creatures will shrink due to human-induced ocean acidity. An international study warns that as more carbon dioxide is expelled into the atmosphere ocean acidity will increase, causing the size and weight ...

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The Screen: a scary picture

The great, open online university with students sitting in front of computers all day does not seem to be as successful as some people predicted. Almost overnight there appears to be the whiff of cultural revolt in the air. It’s ...

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