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Carrington heads to QUTealth public service and was a senior researcher within the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library. Happell to CQU Professor Brenda Happell has been appointed director of the Institute for Health and Social Science Research at CQU. Happell will succeed ...

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A passage to India

India hopes to join the superpower elite, but there is not enough international quality in its higher education system. Phil Baty reports on how it aims to raise standards by overhauling regulation and inviting in foreign providers.ted to become one ...

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Take the time to get it right

<<<To throw the doors open to foreign providers is not necessarily a panacea for Indian higher education, warns Philip Altbach.>>> India’s new Minister of Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, has promised to open its higher education sector to foreign universities ...

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Lessons from the past

It's time for a comprehensive national strategy on international education, says Stephen Connelly. My first job as an English language teacher was in 1988 at a college in downtown Melbourne. Fresh out of a dip ed, I took the beginners’ ...

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Relative impact

Examining community cohesion in Arabic communities in Europe, Christina Slade gets some insights into research impact. Scholars around the world have been exercised with the problem of how to measure the impact of research. The question is particularly stark for ...

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Last word

Like chocolate for waterel, from past to present, and from the battlefields to the archives, where he discovers a dark episode in Australian history that sits starkly at odds with the Anzac myth and legend. For Daley, the Beersheba of ...

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Checked mate 24

1956 --- Puzzle corner A television commentator during Wimbledon said that in men’s singles on grass, the server has such an advantage that if he’s down 15-40, he still has a 50 per cent chance of winning the game. Assuming ...

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Do doctors need more science?

The US says medical schools don’t always deliver the necessary scientific foundations, but the picture in Australia is more reassuring, reports Jeremy Gilling. Concerns have been voiced in the US about whether the medical education curriculum has sufficient scientific rigour ...

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Advising international students of risk

Do Australian universities provide enough relevant and timely information to potential international students about living in Australia? Paul Rodan investigates. One of the key issues in the current international student debate concerns the accuracy and quality of information provided to ...

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