a Polgar, women’s Olympiad, Thessaloniki, 1988. Zsuzsanna, the eldest of Hungary’s remarkable Polgar sisters, was women’s world champion from 1996 to 1999, although she was perhaps fortunate that her brilliant sister Judit – the youngest of the three – never ...
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Attachment leads to success
An economist finds strong positive link between indigenous cultural attachment and educational achievement, writes Jeremy Gilling. Dr Michael Dockery, a research fellow with Curtin University’s Centre for Labour Market Research, says some anthropologists are likely to be “aghast” that an ...
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Do C grade students make the best CEOs, asks Robert Wood. I first saw the quote “C students make the best CEOs” on the t-shirt of a Kellogg MBA student during the recruiting period while I was a visiting professor. ...
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US private education giant Kaplan has its sights set on establishing a teaching-only university in Adelaide, following the signing of an MOU with the University of Adelaide last week. The campus would enrol 5000 campus-based international and domestic students, as ...
More »Cross-sectoral skirmishes: TAFEs and unis raid each other’s lines
TAFEs were the fastest growing higher education providers last year and universities ramped up their vocational offerings, in yet another sign that the distinctions are blurring between higher education and VET. The latest DEEWR ‘Selected higher education statistics’ report, a ...
More »Transport concessions: Sydney and Melbourne face arm-twisting in Brisbane
The NSW and Victorian training ministers next week face the unenviable task of explaining to international students why their respective governments don’t offer transport concessions, in a room full of education ministers from states and territories that do. The three ...
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Two board members of Julia Gillard’s handpicked advisory group, Skills Australia, have reportedly joined the chorus of discontent over the federal government’s flagship VET funding program. ACTU president Sharan Burrow and Australian Industry Group chief executive Heather Ridout – both ...
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The Rudd government’s national broadband network will be a massive consumer of new skills which could prove to be a bonanza for the training sector. But questions as to how many training places, at what level, in what areas of ...
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The government should set up a $100 million fund to support early clinical testing of new drugs in order to attract venture capital of the scale needed to jump-start Australia’s languishing pharmaceutical industry, a public debate at the University of ...
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Kaplan expands Australian offerings Private education group Kaplan has acquired Murdoch Institute of Technology in Perth from the Alexander Education Group. The Murdoch Institute of Technology offers preparatory courses for direct entry into Murdoch University. The agreement includes the transfer ...
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