Internationally renowned environmental sustainability expert Tim Flannery, has recently taken up a Professorial fellowship role with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. In an extended interview with Campus Review, Flannery accused Tony Abbott of insulting Australians ...
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Flannery slams PM for skipping summit
One of Australia’s most eminent sustainability academics and activists has labelled Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s failure to attend last week’s United Nations climate change summit an insult to all Australians. The UN summit, which took place in New York last ...
More »What-if.com: online emergency patient simulator
An online education program is aiming to boost nurses’ emergency management skills using simulations of deteriorating patients. The program, FIRST2ACTweb (Feedback Incorporating Review and Simulation Techniques to Act on Clinical Trends), was developed by Monash University researchers, the University of ...
More »The search for a leg up
With so many graduates taking longer to find full-time work, Campus Review asks what recruiters want and how institutions can help students get it. A recent Graduate Careers Australia survey indicated a historical high in the number of new graduates ...
More »The dignity of access
Technology can evolve in ways that ensure people with disabilities reap the benefits, too. In a recent speech, Apple chief Tim Cook described people with disabilities as locked in a struggle “to have their human dignity acknowledged”. All too frequently, ...
More »OPINION: higher education reform must proceed
Overall, the Higher Education and Research Reform Bill is a package of legislation that is critical if Australia is to have a world-class higher education system. The HELP scheme, which is brilliant and the best scheme in the world but not ...
More »NT prisons outspend VET
Fresh analysis revealing that the NT’s VET budget is being increasingly dwarfed by the territory’s justice and prison budget has led to criticisms that local politicians are finding it easier to deal with disadvantaged citizens via prisons rather than education. ...
More »Craven makes case against funding private providers
Australian Catholic University has urged the Senate to reject government plans that would further extended public funding to non-university higher education providers. The university’s vice-chancellor, professor Greg Craven, last night became the first stakeholder invited to argue his case for funding ...
More »Some see their doggie dish as half empty
Some dogs may be less likely to look on the bright side of life than others. Researchers are looking to identify tendencies towards optimistic and pessimistic characteristics in animals. It is hoped the research may help identify dogs more suited to ...
More »Flannery: summit ‘last chance’ for environment
Firm, internationally co-operative action to tackle greenhouse gas emissions must be secured this week or the outcome may be catastrophic for the planet, renowned Australian environmental sustainability expert Tim Flannery said. Flannery, who has taken up a professorial fellow appointment ...
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