Fiji threatens tighter regulation of international higher education providers The Fijian government has flagged measures to regulate the country’s burgeoning higher education sector amid concerns that a flooding of the sector by interational higher education providers is imminent. “These [overseas ...
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Having gone from Australian heatwave to London snowstorm, Christina Slade is finding her footing in new UK and European research funding climates. While Australians swelter to produce ARC grants, Europe is having a very cold winter. A colleague, attempting to ...
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Lalloo joins Griffith ulcer disease, has been awarded an honorary doctor of science (honoris causa) from Oxford University. Marshall is currently clinical professor of microbiology and clinical professor of medicine at the University of Western Australia. Others presented with honorary ...
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Early career researchers who actively publish their work are much more likely to have a PhD than their non-publishing peers. A paper presented at the recent Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) conference in Brisbane has revealed a number ...
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Bushfire-smart houses A PhD project at the UWA has resulted in the development of a house which can sustain itself in a bushfire without human intervention. The concept, developed by Dr Ian Weir, is expected to have far reaching implications ...
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Death of Labour Law? questions the on-going relevance of labour law in Australia and other Western industrialised societies in the 21st century. The tension between economic flexibility for business and social stability for workers is set against the backdrop of ...
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Internships should be integral to dentistry education, says Jeremy Gilling Dentistry schools, which are funded by the federal government on the same basis as medical schools and receive minimal support from state and territory governments, have substantially higher teaching overheads ...
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Global Campus Management, the company which until last year owned half of CQUniversity, has signed a deal with Cayman Islands-based SinoEd Group. The companies currently have operations in the US, New Zealand, China, Australia and India across the high school, ...
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