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COAG education plan may cut indigenous adults adrift

School education is the success story in indigenous education, with slow but steady improvement in Year 12 completion rates, according to the ‘2009 overcoming indigenous disadvantage: key indicators report’ released at last week’s COAG meeting in Darwin.o a report released ...

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Local impact, broad appeal

By surveying its economic impact, James Cook University has turned around community understanding. By Ben Power.) – 1.76 for Townsville and 2.3 for Cairns. “To put it in relative terms, it’s probably one of the strongest impacts in multiplier terms ...

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International briefs

NZ university-research institute merger abandoned Cost, risk and the economic recession have combined to sink a proposed merger (CR online, 23.03.09) between a New Zealand university and a government-owned research institute. Lincoln, NZ’s smallest university, announced earlier this year that ...

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Promotional fairs postponed in India

Education fairs have been postponed in India in the wake of international media coverage of alleged racist attacks on Indian students in Australia. An Australian education agent based in Chandigarh, north of New Delhi, told Campus Review events had been ...

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Risky business

It’s necessary to fully understand the risks associated with potentially high-impact research, says Ken Baldwin. Last year, the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS) and the Australian National University jointly held a forum on risk-aware research. Our starting ...

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Last word

Strictly speaking: Mashupr of the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage (2007) --- Bookshelf: The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus Peter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this ...

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Whither economics?

Economics was once the primary and comprehensive qualification in undergraduate business education in Australia, but with the rise of the business school, it has fallen steadily from favour. Today a bachelor of commerce or bachelor of business is the principal ...

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