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	05/01/2009 08:58 pm FLINDERS PAYS TRIBUTE TO ITS FIRST VICE-CHANCELLOR Flinders University’s flags are flying at half-mast in a tribute to the University’s founding visionary and first Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Karmel AC, CBE. Professor Karmel, who died in Canberra on December 30 at the age of 86, was a 39-year old professor of economics when he was put in c ... 05/01/2009 04:00 pm Japanese ABC Learning affiliate to close down A Japanese education provider with ties to the failed childcare operator ABC Learning says it will shut its doors later this week. ... 05/01/2009 03:55 pm Trans-sectoral thinking required for governments I have been thinking recently about those spectacular frescoes in Sienna. Painted in 1340, they portray government, both good and bad. And I have found myself wondering if anything has really changed during the past 670 years. All around the world there is a great deal of dissatisfaction regardi ... 05/01/2009 11:59 am Innovation round up - December 08 December 2008 marked the end of a long year, with some pretty testing conditions both behind us and more to come. More than ever, we need to think laterally and understand how new ideas can potentially get us out the trouble caused by old ideas. As well as the standard fiduciary practices, thinking ... 05/01/2009 11:29 am inTechnology brings Xirrus down under Distributor, inTechnology, has brought on US-based Wi-Fi vendor, Xirrus, to strengthen its play in the education sector. ... 05/01/2009 11:00 am Tax policy and returns to education This paper considers how asymmetric tax treatment, where labour market earnings are taxed but household production is untaxed, affects educational choice and labour supply in a perfectly competitive labour market. ... 05/01/2009 06:28 am Internet restrictions for workers indicate what to expect with mandatory filters SEX education, cartoons and classic sculptures are among the website material deemed too risque for Brisbane City Council workers, while Queensland Transport employees are not allowed to view weather pages, which are deemed as entertainment. Queensland police were denied access to the official... ... 03/01/2009 02:44 am MPC Computers Shutting Down davidphogan74 writes "MPC Computers (formerly Micron's computer division) notified the Idaho Department of Labor in a letter on 12/29/2008 that it would terminate its remaining employees. The company had been operating under the protection of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy since November, after it ... 02/01/2009 07:00 pm Guantanamo statement Julia Gillard - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion - Media Statement - 02-01-2009 ... 02/01/2009 03:47 pm e-Learning Course on Green ICT Strategies: Part 13 - More Pragmatism In Part 12 I discovered I had scheduled two week sevens as part of preparing a new e-learning course on "Green IT Strategies", to be offered as part of the ACS Computer Professional Education Program. Having merged some of the topics so I had the required number of weeks for the course I g ... 02/01/2009 12:26 pm Claiborne Pell, senator behind college grants, dies (Reuters) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Claiborne Pell, an aristocratic Rhode Islander who spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate and was best known for championing better education for the poor, died Thursday, the Providence Journal reported. ... 02/01/2009 10:05 am Education delivers results in north-east Asia The winners of the second Wine Australia Travel Scholarship in association with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust have been announced. ... 02/01/2009 01:41 am Choice needed for education revolution Kevin Donnelly Kevin Donnelly writes: On being elected as leader of the then Opposition in 2006, and now as Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd has signalled education as a key policy issue. Mirroring then British prime minister Tony Blair’s cry of education, education, education, Rudd and Julia Gillard de ... 02/01/2009 12:00 am Private schools lift fees THE cost of a private school education will soar this year, with some schools increasing their fees while household budgets tighten. ... 01/01/2009 04:41 pm $5m humanitarian aid for Gaza Strip Julia Gillard - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion - Media Statement - 01-01-2009 ... 01/01/2009 12:00 am Rudd's year to come It had been carefully planned as the smooth-sailing year when the reform agenda upon which the Rudd Government won office would be translated into a raft of new policies. But thanks to a dire global economic outlook that brings the prospect - if not the likelihood - of a recession in Australia, 2009 ... 31/12/2008 04:00 pm The culture of medicine Everybody is familiar with the stereotypes of medical education from the student perspective: grueling hours, little recognition and even less glory. Now a novel Brandeis study published in Academic Medicine this month pulls back the curtain on the dominant environment of academic medicine from the ... 31/12/2008 04:00 pm The culture of medicine Everybody is familiar with the stereotypes of medical education from the student perspective: grueling hours, little recognition and even less glory. Now a novel Brandeis study published in Academic Medicine this month pulls back the curtain on the dominant environment of academic medicine from the ... 31/12/2008 11:00 am Merkel says crisis chance for tough financial rules : German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she would press for stronger international financial regulations, saying the global economic crisis created an opportunity for more controls and greater transparency. In a speech for broadcast on New Year's Eve released in advance, Merkel said he ... 31/12/2008 05:00 am Derek H. Burney: Canada's place in an Obama world The foreign policy challenges that we face are daunting. The global financial crisis, stock and commodity market gyrations and an impending deep recession are corroding the structure and traditions of international co-operation labouriously constructed over the last half-century. For a few weeks, it ... 31/12/2008 12:00 am Disabled student takes state to court A Victorian teenager with multiple disabilities is suing the Education Department for discrimination, claiming it failed to provide him with a full-time education. ... 30/12/2008 04:00 pm Education practices influence women engineer shortage, MU study finds As the need for engineering professionals grows, educators and industry leaders are increasingly concerned with how to attract women to a traditional male career. A new University of Missouri study found the impact of the engineering curriculum and obstacles, including self-efficacy and feelings of ... 30/12/2008 04:00 am Asbestos found in newest Illawarra schools Two of the Illawarra's newest schools are among more than 70 that have been identified as having asbestos in a state-wide audit conducted by the Department of Education and Training. ... 30/12/2008 02:55 am New Hope for U.S. Science Education More than 200,000 new science teachers needed in next decade. ... 29/12/2008 04:00 pm Transcendental Meditation reduces ADHD symptoms among students: New study The transcendental meditation technique may be an effective and safe nonpharmaceutical aid for treating ADHD, according to a promising new study published this month in the peer-reviewed online journal Current Issues in Education.The pilot study followed a group of middle school students with ADHD w ...