17 October 1973 – 10 December 2008 Queensland's water research community last month mourned the death of promising young water scientist Dr Christy Fellows. Fellows passed away in hospital aged 35 as a result of a short illness. Based at ...
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Haywood heads to SCU
More »Higher education a major beneficiary of US stimulus package
A large part – perhaps close to 10 per cent – of the $US825 billion in new public spending and tax breaks over two years that is proposed to stimulate the flagging US economy will go to higher education, according ...
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UK to guarantee assistance to poor students Minister Manmohan Singh has set out a new five-year plan that involves building 50 more universities and hundreds of new colleges, allocating 19 per cent of GDP to fund education. It is expected ...
More »NZ research quantity, not quality rewarded
New research has raised questions about the impact of New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Fund after it found university economics departments have rewarded research quantity rather than quality in their appointments since the advent of the fund. University of Waikato ...
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Sub-headPromiscuity leads to faster, bigger, better sperm Fish species whose females are more promiscuous are likely to have faster, bigger, more numerous and longer lived sperm. A team of six researchers – one each from two Canadian, two US, one ...
More »Well-kept secrets and a few surprises
Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley runs a watertight ship. The report from her higher education review has been arguably the most eagerly anticipated document to swamp the sector in two decades. But Bradley’s leak-proof outfit ensured that the speculation remained just ...
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The Bradley report is politically astute and enters the policy mainstream. Its main concerns about participation rates, social equity and VET reform are shared with the Rudd Government. Denise Bradley and her panel have also read the fiscal issues well. ...
More »It’s about mass and volume and doing it better
If there is one overarching theme of the Bradley review, it is more students in a higher quality system. These policy objectives have their tentacles in every corner of the 300-page report. Bradley’s target for 40 per cent of 25 ...
More »VET takeover proposal applauded
A nationally run vocational education and training system – widely considered as desirable, but politically unfeasible – is now on the cards, with the Bradley review panel calling for the federal government to assume full responsibility for regulating all post-school ...
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