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Australian scientist wins Nobel Professor Elizabeth Blackburn has become Australia’s first female Nobel laureate when she won this year’s medicine category last week. Tasmanian-born Blackburn (60) and US colleagues Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were recognised for their major breakthrough ...

From downloads of lectures to entire courses for free, Rebecca Attwood reports on how universities are fitting open educational resources into their missions and marketing.ide by side with researchers in laboratories, it would be impossible to transfer the kind of ...

It’s a birthday, and Simon Haines experiences democracy Hong Kong style. A lively long weekend in Hong Kong. Three hundred and fifty thousand people on both sides of Victoria Harbour on Thursday evening watching the fireworks display for the PRC’s ...

Nobel Foundation rejects call for change The Nobel Prize system is dated and in desperate need of an overhaul, a group of top scientists and engineers said last month in a letter to the Nobel Foundation published in New Scientist. ...

A recent court decision may impact on the ability of public universities to engage in commercial activities and still retain their charitable status. By Dianne Sisak. “We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not halfway out ...

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – except in exceptional caseshing I studied, but if I was to speculate based on gender research in other projects, I would suggest that women are more relational beings and ...

TAFE libraries face most of the challenges university libraries face, and then some. Fortunately, new technologies can play a big part in meeting these challenges. Jeremy Gilling reports. Helene Brown, manager of library resource management services for TAFE NSW, says ...

Having submitted his PhD thesis, Sean Perera finds parallels in the Book of the Dead. The all-consuming nature of PhD research leaves little of consequence to hold on to once the thesis is submitted. Feelings of worthlessness and lack of purpose ...

The resignation of a senior academic reflects both the madness of economic rationalism and the self-serving motives of ordinary people, writes Henry Barnes. “It is well known that problem avoidance is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving ...