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While Newcastle electrical engineer Ken Morley and his family were touring Hangzhou, China, in 1980, they met 15-year-old Jack Ma. Morely became his friend and mentor. He challenged many of Ma’s views and helped him develop a global perspective in ...
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At school, Nick Tepper was a smart kid who behaved badly in class but he stayed in school because he wanted to go to university. Fast forward a few years and Tepper is a 24-year-old University of Queensland graduate who ...
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Restoring the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program and including sub-degree loans in the demand-driven system are two of the priorities for the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) group’s new chair, professor Colin Stirling. This puts the IRU – a network ...
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Professor Linda Shields from Charles Sturt University is a specialist in nursing ethics. She has co-written a book on the role of nurses in Nazi Germany’s forced euthanasia programs and recently authored an opinion paper on the role of nurses ...
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