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Monthly Archives: October 2012

Student suspended over ‘bought’ essays

Deakin University has suspended at least one overseas student believed to be among a large group of students using online services to buy essays. More than 100 students were implicated in academic misconduct at the Victorian university earlier this year. ...

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Retail sector pays the price

An award-winning training group fears employers will soon not be able to afford to train many staff. Over the past 12 months the national media revealed that "VET reform" opened the door to shonky providers. However, a story that has ...

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Take care in teaching teachers

The signature pedagogies of teacher education are changing but they should not be allowed to be overly affected by political or social forces. While criticism of teachers seems to have waned somewhat, the focus of discontent has shifted to teacher ...

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Use of ketamine questioned

A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related ...

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UK facing engineering graduate shortage

The UK needs to educate at least an extra 10,000 science graduates a year just to maintain its current industrial position, a major new report has concluded. The Royal Academy of Engineering report, Jobs and Growth: the Importance of Engineering ...

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Mobile phone satellite rivals Mars rover

A University of Queensland staff member is sending a satellite into space that in some areas is more powerful than the Curiosity Rover, which recently landed on Mars. The satellite, which measures 10cm x 10cm, is controlled by an on-board ...

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Call for southern hemisphere space agency

Australia should establish a federated space agency with countries in the southern hemisphere to maximise the commercial return from our space research and technology, RMIT aerospace associate professor Lachlan Thompson says. Thompson told the 12th Australian Space Science Conference that ...

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Bend and stretch: robot feels the pressure

A robot that simulates complex joint motion has been developed to enhance understanding of the 3D performance of normal and diseased joints and their artificial replacements. Called the Six Degree of Freedom Hexapod Robot, its real life applications for biomedical ...

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Melbourne Uni offers free online courses

The University of Melbourne has joined the free online education revolution that is transforming higher education around the world. It has announced that it has partnered with Coursera, a US for-profit company started by two professors at Stanford University, to ...

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TAFE cuts ‘worse for women’

Budget cuts to the state’s TAFEs are twice as likely to disadvantage women, a study by the Victorian TAFE Association (VTA) has found. The analysis, which examined 20 popular courses impacted by funding cuts, found the changes will affect more ...

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