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Teaching and research split in perfect system
The establishment of teaching-only universities to subsidise a few elite research powerhouses has been put forward as part of a model for a perfect university system.
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Bradley joins editorial boardpan. He is chair of the University of Sydney USA Foundation. UB appoints PVC (research) Professor Frank Stagnitti, an environmental scientist and mathematician, has been appointed pro vice-chancellor (research) at the University of Ballarat. Stagnitti, currently of ...
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Bookshelf - Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of Historyrom the Central Institute of Experimental Animals and Professor Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine. The team used viral DNA to integrate a new gene for green fluorescent ...
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Support for the arts
The arts, social sciences and humanities will benefit from a new strategy to develop teaching practice.t for the deans council. Hay, the 2006 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year, plans to tackle two key ...
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<<<History may be enjoying a resurgence, but developing the skills of a historian is not without its issues, reports Jeremy Gilling.>>> History is everywhere, and just about everyone has an opinion, says Marnie Hughes-Warrington. “It’s not like physics, say, where ...
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Australia’s richest 200 individuals might be collectively $25 billion poorer than they were a year earlier, but with $208 million, Shesh Ghale had more than enough to make his debut. The Nepalese-born entrepreneur is living proof that education opens doors.g ...
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Transnational education programs may have peaked a couple of years ago and its hard to tell where this particular corner of international education is headed, writes Stephen Connelly.TNE) programs over the past 17 years. My first experience of TNE was ...
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