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Obituary Dr Christy Fellows

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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Briefs – International

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 ...

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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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Research briefs

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 ...

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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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Life after Bradley

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. ...

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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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