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UK to guarantee assistance to poor students Minister Manmohan Singh has set out a new five-year plan that involves building 50 more universities and hundreds of new colleges, allocating 19 per cent of GDP to fund education. It is expected ...

New research has raised questions about the impact of New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Fund after it found university economics departments have rewarded research quantity rather than quality in their appointments since the advent of the fund. University of Waikato ...

Sub-headPromiscuity leads to faster, bigger, better sperm Fish species whose females are more promiscuous are likely to have faster, bigger, more numerous and longer lived sperm. A team of six researchers – one each from two Canadian, two US, one ...

Rod Jones, the founding and managing director of global education services provider Navitas, has been named the 2008 Ernst & Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year. Since Navitas’s establishment in 1994 and its subsequent listing on the ASX in 2004, ...

A female elder and senior lecturer with Charles Darwin University has been appointed to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Dr Payi-Linda Ford, a senior lecturer with CDU’s School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, is ...

Curtin University of Technology’s Muresk Institute has appointed Dr Roger Mandel as agronomy lecturer. Mandel joins Curtin from Charles Stuart University where he has previously taught agriculture and viticulture science and conducted research. He has had a long history in ...

ACU National has appointed Dr Brian D’Netto as the new national head of the School of Business. The appointment follows the completion of an external review of the university’s business and informatics program, which recommended it combine its three business ...

Teachers in Queensland are being told they are at risk of emotionally abusing their students if they use red pen to mark their students’ work. A Queensland education department document also suggests students be given bean bags to reduce stress, ...

Although she started writing early in life, it was not until her 50s that Elizabeth Jolley received the recognition her talent deserved. She won The Age Book of the Year award on three occasions as well as the Miles Franklin ...

With the recent celebration of Thanksgiving in the US, and the imminence of Christmas, it’s timely to consider the name of a bird that is common to both traditions – the turkey. Turkeys don’t actually come from Turkey. They were ...