Featured event:
ascilite 2008
Deakin University
Melbourne
November 30 - Dec 3
News headlines
- Volunteer work could count towards a degree
- Under a new credits system to be introduced in England from September next year students will be able to build up credits ? or points ? for the number of hours of work put in to their study and the le...
- Report: Green efforts improving on campuses
- More campuses in the United States have shifted their focus to environmental and sustainability programs, but funding and staffing issues have prevented them from implementing green initiatives on the...
- JCU opens multi-million dollar Singapore campus
- Australia's James Cook University (JCU) opened its new multi-million dollar Singapore campus. Hundreds of Singaporean, Australian and international dignitaries and education sector representatives hav...
- OECD - Trends Shaping Education -2008 Edition
- This book is designed to help policy makers, managers and practitioners in education to think about developments like these and to support long-term strategic thinking in education. Information on how...
- Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (media release)
- The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, announced that an Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement will be introduced to make Australian qualifications recognised and renowned throughout th...
- Graduate Management Association of Australia Inc (GMAA) Star Rating 2008
- The GMA produces and publishes the annual GMA Star Rating with a detailed survey of the top business schools in Australia. GMA, August 2008
- First Open Access Day to be held 14 October 2008
- SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for FreeCulture have jointly announced the first international Open Access Day. Bu...
- New laureate scheme to attract world leading researchers
- Outstanding researchers from Australia and around the world will be attracted to work in Australian universities under a new Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme, announced by the Minister for Innov...
- $1M for international Humanities and Social Science collaboration
- Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, announced Australian Government funding of $1 million over the next three years to support international research engagement ...
- Australian Academy of Science Honorific awards
- Each year the Australian Academy of Science rewards scientific excellence. Honorific awards are made to early-career researchers under 40 and to career researchers for life-long achievements. The clos...
Call for presentations
Australasian Virtual Worlds Workshop
Swinburne Melbourne November 28-29
Submission Deadline: August 1st 2008
