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Libraries head into the blogosphere
A web 2.0 learning program is taking off in Australian libraries, and may help secure their future in a rapidly changing world, reports Jeremy Gilling. Fears that the internet could sound the death knell for libraries are being countered by ...
More »Education: the circuit-breaker for women
Education has “a positive and significant effect” on labour market experiences, new research has confirmed. Researchers from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at University of Melbourne, found a “significant intergenerational relationship between parents’ and children’s education ...
More »Into the vault
Monash University and the University of Melbourne will each contribute $5.5 million towards the construction of the largest collaborative library storage facility in Australia. The $16 million library project will treble the storage capacity of the existing space of CAVAL ...
More »Online education tops growth industry list
Online education will expand more than twice as quickly as any other industry in Australia over the next 12 months, according to a new report which predicts the country’s top 10 growth industries in 2009-10. Business information analysts IBISWorld say ...
More »“Death toll” report challenged: DEEWR
The federal government has challenged recent Fairfax newspaper reports about international student deaths in Australia, claiming the figures quoted in the articles don’t tally with its own data. The 1 July reports in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, based on coronial ...
More »ARC grant process counterproductive
Many researchers don’t need a large grant to carry out their research, but the system drives them to apply nevertheless. By Tom Clark. I hate Australian Research Council grants. I don’t hate the ARC staff. I’ve only ever been impressed ...
More »Indigenous training up, but other equity indicators down
VET is increasingly the sector of choice for indigenous Australians, who are enrolling in vocational courses at more than double the rate of the overall population, according to data released last week by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...
More »Private VET corners the international market – and a bigger domestic slice, too
Private sector VET easily eclipsed all other educational sectors combined – including higher education, TAFE, schools, language training and enabling courses – in international enrolment growth last year, according to new data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research ...
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