TECHNOLOGY researchers warn that universities need to become more interactive and embrace mobile phones, blogs and MySpace if they want to keep the latest technology-savvy generation of students interested. They have dubbed these students generation C because they create rather than just consume information.
UNIVERSITIES are cutting teaching weeks to make room for winter and summer schools in a reshaping of the tertiary calendar.
THREE youths have been charged after eight people were stabbed by youths armed with knives and machetes who gatecrashed a 16th birthday party in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
A CURRICULUM under which children are not taught to read and write until they are seven is being reviewed amid debate over whether it should be offered in public schools.
THE divide between city and country students is widening as fewer rural students enrol in university because of the soaring costs of tertiary education.
TEACHING Chinese in most Victorian schools and equipping business with a cultural understanding of China are among the aims of the new Confucius Institute at the University of Melbourne.
CHILDREN as young as eight are being bullied in internet chat rooms and primary schoolers are sending pornographic pictures on their mobiles as the menace of cyber bullying reaches a new legion of younger victims.
RMIT University, new among campuses worldwide joining the weird, wired world of Second Life, has invested in a virtual island and is encouraging its students to visit virtual nightclubs and cafes.
ETHICS experts agree with a federal government report that the introduction of mandatory registration and formal complaints procedures for human research ethics committees should be given consideration..
BRENDAN Keilar’s heroic actions to step in and help a woman in distress came as no surprise to his close friends.
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