Collaboration solutions are driving a teaching transformation Our students are living in a digital world. It is the most interconnected time in human history with 40 per cent of the world’s population – almost three billion people – online. In ...
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UniMelb, UTAS professors join ANSTO board
A professor from the university of Melbourne and one from the University of Tasmania have been appointed to the board of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . Dr Adi Paterson, chief executive of ANSTO, announced that UniMelb provost Margaret Sheil ...
More »Test of time: UC conference explores best use of principals’ hours
School leaders and academics have descended upon the University of Canberra to explore how exactly principals use their time. Cross-national Exploration of Principals’ Time use: Patterns, causes, and effects is funded by the American Educational Research Association, a network of academics ...
More »Check it: incorrect referencing is a common problem
There are often fine lines between accidental borrowing, paying homage, witty allusions, coincidental reproductions and downright plagiarism – just ask Melania Trump – but one step that can help students, researchers and academics avoid having their heart-in-the-right-place negligence lumped in ...
More »Universities receive Alzheimer’s disease research funding
A team comprising researchers from New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington and the United Kingdom's University of Liverpool have been awarded grants totaling almost AU $815,000 to explore a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease. Just over half of the grant ...
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