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Reflection is both a starting point and a tipping point for improving self-perception, and in turn, the nature and quality of vocational learning, says Larry Smith. During 2008, Berwyn Clayton from Victoria University and I interviewed a wide range of ...

Completing an apprenticeship or traineeship delivers significant financial and employment advantages. New research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research has found that recently completed apprentices and trainees who were employed full-time in 2008 earned 16 per cent more ...

Sustainability expert joins GriffithSciences at UNSW. A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Muecke was most recently at the Free University of Berlin, where he held the position of visiting chair of Australian studies. Prior to that he ...

The many challenges of globalisation and cross-border cooperation for higher education will be explored in a UNESCO-sponsored conference in Kula Lumpur in October.f London Sir Graeme Davies, secretary-general of the International Association of Universities Eva Egron-Polak, and vice-chancellor of Open ...

US postgraduate applications growing but slowing The rate of increase of international graduate applications to US universities slowed in 2009 for the third year in a row, to 4 per cent, following increases of 6 per cent in 2008, 9 ...

Inverted chromatin, not carrots, the key to night vision Nocturnal mammals such as mice, cats, deer and lemurs remodel the DNA within their eyes to turn photoreceptor cells into light-collecting lenses, according to an article by scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians University ...

Why cloud computing is the future of technology for the higher education sector. By Beverley Head. Forests have been felled analysing the federal government’s April announcement that it would work with private enterprise to create a company that will invest ...

Gloom boom for the brain06, the social networking service Twitter has grown to the point where it is the most used behind the well-established MySpace and Facebook. It differs from these in its immediacy – input is essentially a short ...