ARCHITECTS have become an “optional extra” in the developer-led building boom, prompting Monash University to put the profession centre stage with what it claims is the first new architecture course in Australia in 30 years.
TWO Year 9 students are facing possible firearms charges after they took a sawn-off shotgun, a rifle and 17 rounds of ammunition to a school camp.
THE Group of Eight’s bold plan for a deregulated higher education sector has reignited divisions, with some non-Go8 universities warning that the plan would have “grave consequences”.
IT was such an ordinary day. At their farm, Forest View, on the outskirts of Kerang, Alan Peacock was sitting at the kitchen table looking at some bills and having a cup of tea, while his wife, Min, a nurse, was hanging the washing outside. It had been, Alan says, “a very casual morning”.
IT was supposed to be the beginning of a holiday in Queensland when Geoff McMonnies boarded the train in Swan Hill with two of his teenage daughters.
A FATHER sits on a step in the morning sun, his head in his hands. His teenage son is dead. His heart is cracked open. Video: Survivor recounts the crash Video: Emergency services respond Video: Kerang crash extended report Interactive map: Where the crash happened Graphic: Crash site | Pictures: The scene Your say: An unsafe system?
AN increasing number of students are starting university in July as institutions struggle to fill places with older applicants.
LEADING universities are demanding radical action to tackle a crisis in the number of Year 12 students graduating with a foreign language, which has dropped from 40per cent to six per cent over the past four decades.
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