Quartet tops new Guide
UNSW, UWA, Wollongong University and Bond University have emerged as top performers in the 2009 Good Universities Guide.
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Intimations of morality
CLIVE Hamilton has considerable drawing power among the reading public, but will a book about non-religious spirituality based on the premise that we need to be good for goodness’s sake walk off the shelves?
Too few keen to speak in tongues
LANGUAGE studies are still struggling to attract students, despite a Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister.
Notes from the digital frontier
SOFTWARE will free teachers to revolutionise their craft after hundreds of years.
NTEU dispute Deakin trimester move
THE tussle over the move to trimesters at Deakin University has sharpened with the staff union notifying a dispute.
Proven … it pays off to be faithful
GET a philosopher and keen game theorist started on the subject of love and you are in for a wild ride, which starts with some musing on “co-operative behaviour” (fidelity) and ends with the depressing news that the mathematical chances of meeting the right person are (drum roll) … 37 per cent.
Rise of the iron chancellor
THE ideal of collegially running a university is sometimes just that. Jill Rowbotham reports on the tricky business of dual leadership.
Seven take a bite of Apple site
SEVEN universities in Australia and New Zealand will make a great leap into online lecturing today when American computer giant Apple launches a local iTunes U education site.
Stay in line online
EVEN alternative online chatters know they must keep themselves nice.
The money lies among alumni
GRADUATES are being targeted as alma maters bid to boost their profiles.
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