A report has identified students’ lack of access to apprenticeships as the cause of a bottleneck in Australia’s fashion industry but one leading educator said the figures “have to be taken with a grain of salt”. IBISWorld's Fashion Backward: Career progression increasingly difficult ...
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Work is life for academics: survey
Research has found that, in academia, work is life. For Academic Work/Life Balance: Challenges for theory and practice, sociologists Dr Nick Osbaldiston from James Cook University, Monash University’s Fabian Cannizzo and Christian Mauri from Murdoch University surveyed 155 early- to mid-career academics. The ...
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Australia needs new infrastructure. Now. Over the next 25 years, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane collectively will need to accommodate an extra 5.9 million people. This week, the nation's population hit 24 million. The boom has contributed to the damnable ...
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CEFC loan boosts UniMelb’s sustainability push
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has boosted the University of Melbourne’s sustainability agenda with a $9.1 million loan. The money will go to the installation of solar photovoltaic cells, solar thermal, and micro-wind turbines across UniMelb’s infrastructure. These projects form ...
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Mission accomplished for Sydney school students’ space saga
Houston had no problems after Normanhurst Boys High School students reported mission accomplished on their task to work with NASA robots on the International Space Station. These boys were one of 10 teams sponsored by the University of Sydney to ...
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