Monthly Archives: November 2015
Cancer affects memory: research
Cancer sufferers are three times more likely to have memory loss than people without the disease, a new study has found. The impairment in cognitive function - memory, concentration and multi-tasking - for those with bowel cancer was the same ...
More »Expert warns NSW deradicalisation plan won’t work
The NSW Government's multimillion-dollar program to prevent radicalisation will backfire, a University of Sydney expert has warned. The Baird Government announced this week it plans to spend $47 million on combating extremism in schools. The program features training teachers and staff ...
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Freeze VET funding to ‘risky’ providers: TDA
TAFE Directors Australia has called on the government to urgently freeze funding to "high risk" vocational training providers and ban others amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the VET FEE-HELP scheme. In a statement issued on Monday morning, TDA chief executive Martin ...
More »Student benefit from paying for research unclear: Grattan
The authors of a new report indicating that Australian universities are using billions in teaching revenue to subsidise research have questioned the benefit to student learning or services. The report, The Cash Nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities, released ...
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