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New program to drive links with industry

More than $249 million in funding will be available for engineering cadetships, industry training for PhD students, and specialized research hubs next year through a government program to boost competition and innovation in the country’s manufacturing sector. The Industrial Transformation ...

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CQU defends chiropractic course

A group of 34 medical researchers and doctors has written to Central Queensland University urging it to re-consider plans to offer a course in alternative medicine. The group is concerned at a decision by CQU to train chiropractors in courses ...

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Research into growth of teaching nursing homes

Just as a round of government funding gets underway, new research looks at the growth of teaching nursing homes in Australia. The majority of the teaching nursing homes currently operating in Australia are in metropolitan areas, are large in size ...

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Humanities miss out in CRC grants

The hard sciences have once again been the big beneficiaries from the latest round of new funding for Australian Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs). Just a fortnight after the intensive second round interviews, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator ...

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‘Txting’ is bad for literacy levels, sez who?

Evidence suggesting texting is damaging to children’s literacy levels is inconclusive say education students Daniel Milne and Niki Preston. The causal relationship between communication technology – primarily text messaging - and declining literacy rates has been the topic of much ...

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MP attacks UNSW over Barach dismissal

The following is the statement by Dr John Kaye MP to the Parliament of NSW:   In June 2009 University of NSW senior management closed ranks around vice-chancellor Fred Hilmer and dismissed world-leading safety science expert Dr Paul Barach on ...

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The Blog Rankings -students recruit students

As anyone who has ever attended university knows, the difference between the world presented in the glossy publicity material and the one where you actually attend lectures can be stark. Students with older siblings or friends who have been to uni ...

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