AS the people of Burma struggle to recover from Cyclone Nargis, a small band from Griffith University’s school of engineering is up in the Torres Strait collecting data that may help guard against loss of life should the same thing happen there.
OPINION among academics is divided on sources of funding for Islamic studies.
FAST fashion is out as far as Alison Gwilt is concerned. By fast she means the tendency of 18 to 25-year-olds to buy cheaply, on impulse and ditch garments quickly. No good, says the lecturer in the school of design at the University of Technology, Sydney, who is on a quest to make fashion more sustainable.
ADOPTING a cross-disciplinary approach to research, the University of Melbourne has created Australia’s first physical biosciences program.
WHEN The Australian’s Rosemary Neill wrote a story under the headline “Lost for words” in December 2006, saying the teaching of Australian literature was being seriously neglected, it triggered a dramatic reaction.
CURTIN University of Technology plans to halve its 900 courses of study in favour of concentrating on its strengths and continuing to develop joint ventures with industry.
NATALIE Karam, a second-year university law student, recently changed classes because she was so uncomfortable about the ideological stance of one of her lecturers.
THE first NTEU log of claims since 2002 has requested a 9 per cent pay rise for university staff each year for the next three years.
RETAIL therapy is a phrase heard most often in association with women, but that may be because we are not looking in the right places for dedicated male shoppers.
RETIRING Democrats senator Natasha Stott Despoja will become a visiting research fellow at her alma mater, the University of Adelaide.
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