GUPPIES are among the most promiscuous fish, scientists have discovered over decades of study, but new research from the University of Western Australia has established that when females are confined to one partner, their offspring exhibit behaviour that may be more likely to promote their survival.
OVERSEAS enrolments in the vocational education sector are booming, but universities are still the biggest export revenue earners.
INTERNATIONAL and Australian students have few chances to make friends.
HUGH Evans is winging his way to Cambridge to take up a Chevening Scholarship-funded masters in international relations, but neither the venerable university, nor Melbourne’s Monash, from which he has just graduated with first class honours in law, will be enough to hold him.
BEHIND the discovery of the link between a cooling climate and an explosion almost 500 million years ago of marine biological diversity lies the SHRIMP, according to the Australian National University team that led the research.
PHYSIOTHERAPY student Shaun Williams’s first semester at Griffith University was enlivened by a trip to Qatar, where he zoomed up and down 60m sand dunes, bargained in the souk wakif (markets) and, courtesy of some research he undertook last year at high school, won the gold medal at the World Virtual Science and Engineering Fair.
CREATING a robotic clarinet player is a clever thing in itself and winning an international competition with it deeply gratifying, but the strategy behind it is even neater: John Judge wants to put the National Information and Communications Technology Australia’s Centre of Excellence on the global map.
DAVID Lambert has come home. Most recently the professor of molecular ecology and evolution at Auckland’s Massey University, Lambert has returned to Brisbane’s Griffith University, where he is taking up the new chair of evolutionary biology.
THE University of Wollongong has issued $42.5million of consumer price index-linked annuity bonds.
GRADUATES have given top marks to Bond, Notre Dame and Sunshine Coast universities for the quality of the educational experience they provide, in this year’s Good Universities Guide 2009.
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