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Work-based training is one of the objectives of the $650 million Jobs Fund which the federal government agreed to with cross-bench senators Brown and Fielding during February negotiations over the government’s $42 billion economic stimulus package. Announcing details of the ...

What are young people’s labour market chances in the recession, asks Erica Smith. In early 2007, at the height of the economic boom, I presented a paper to a national workshop that was looking at youth transitions. The paper compared ...

Stalagmites may show how fast ice is melting Researchers may be able to establish how fast the world’s ice sheets are melting by studying rare preserved stalagmites in a coastal cave in Italy. The stalagmites provide a timeline of sea ...

Hawkins to Tokyo Professor Gay Hawkins from UNSW’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has been given a visiting appointment at the University of Tokyo. Hawkins, a cultural studies expert in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, will ...

Visiting Taiwan for a conference, Simon Haines discovers the world’s true globalisers. Taiwan, like Hong Kong, is a small Chinese outrider, living on its wits and taking an anxious pride in its startling economic success and its tenuous political autonomy. ...

Foreign applications to US graduate schools grow slowly The number of Chinese and Middle Eastern students applying for admission to US graduate programs surged while applications from India and South Korea fell, according to a survey by the Council of ...

James Cook University was a beneficiary after a massive cane toad hunt in northern Queensland. The university took possession of dozens of toads following the inaugural Toad Day Out hunt in late March. The biggest specimens were given to a ...

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Business education in Australia looks set for its second revolution as educators and industry seek to impart the lessons of climate change and financial meltdown, reports Jeremy Gilling. The Australian Treasury, derided by some for its narrow, conservative and orthodox ...