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Call for open entry for Maori at NZ A call for Maori open entry to university has met with a mixed response and questions over how unprepared students would perform. “We have seen how the dice are loaded against Maori ...

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Last word

Bookshelfmplished”) and Chengguan a word from Chinese for a type of city administrator. Given that the internet is the main conduit for communication around the world, it’s natural that terms relating to the medium, like Web 2.0, should feature heavily. ...

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Calls for Senate inquiry get louder

The Dali Lama was an unexpected voice in the furore around international student violence last week, telling the Indian media an entire country could not be labelled racist on the basis of a few incidents. “The attacks on Indian students ...

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Education ministers show united front

A telephone hotline, another taskforce and targeted audits of education providers are among immediate measures the government will take to protect the interests of international students. Under increased pressure to safeguard the welfare of international students – and the lucrative ...

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UWS suspends EBA negotiations

Enterprise bargaining negotiations at the University of Western Sydney were temporarily suspended last week after the university sought to get a commitment from the academic union that it would not use a damaging report to promote its agenda. The report, ...

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Plagiarism with a difference

How can a professor of medicine claim 800 authored or co-authored peer-reviewed articles in his career when most research academics struggle to write five a year? This is the question posed by Sergio Sismondo in a recent issue of the ...

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