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New vistas opening for e-publishing

E-publishing has moved well beyond its first, halting steps as little more than an electronic page-turner. The new “born digital” generation of e-publishing is offering new possibilities for academic publishing. Both Melbourne University Press and Monash University ePress have recently ...

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Is whackademia bad for your health?

Overworked, overwrought and overrun by managerialism, Joseph Gora ponders the mental health of Australia’s academic workforce. The vexed issue of the casualisation of the academic workforce has been boiling away for many years. Now it seems things have come to ...

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Good teaching matters

Equity is not an add-on to good teaching, it is part of it. It contributes to the part of teaching that makes it good, says Trevor Gale. Good teaching matters. It has always mattered, but it seems that it has ...

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Positive legacy of the ATCs

What models from the Australian technical colleges can infiltrate TAFE, asks John Mitchell. After they were announced unexpectedly in 2006, Australian technical colleges polarised opinion in the VET sector. Some people railed against them as the worst idea imaginable, while ...

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VET briefs

EIF grants for community-based VET The federal government last week announced 150 grants totalling $96 million to community-based training projects as the final instalment from the Teaching and Learning Capital Fund for Vocational Education (TLCF) announced last December. Grants ranging ...

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International briefs

Foreign degrees still hot in Singapore The overseas degree is still shiny in Singapore despite the recession, reports theStraits Times. Foreign universities with campuses there are seeing a healthy growth of applications from Singaporeans this year. The chief reason appears ...

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Checked mate 25

(since to share the first deuce, he must win the first deuce point and lose the second, or vice versa) P(E4) = [2p(1-p)] 2p2 and so on. So we get: 0.5 = p2 [p2 + 2p(1-p)p2 + [2p(1-p)] 2p2 + ...

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A class act

Researchers have traditionally been the top guns in universities. But a new wave of teaching-intensive academics are challenging old notions. Julie Hare reports. Just one year out of her PhD and three years into her academic career, Kirsten Farrand has ...

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