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| Fellowships in Florence Applications are now invited for the Australian European University Institute Fellowships Association fellowships which provide the opportunity to carry out research. Fellowships are available to Australian postgraduates and early career researchers currently undertaking research in history, law, economics and social and political sciences who can identify a direct benefit for their research from a period of residence at the EUI. A six-month Postdoctoral Fellowship will be offered for the period January-June 2010. Two three-month Postgraduate Fellowships will be offered for the period September-December 2009. Applications due 21 March 2009. more... |
| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) incorporated in Singapore The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has completed the legal steps for incorporation as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee in Singapore. The founding members of the new legal entity are the National Library Board Singapore and the National Library of Finland. DCMI News, January 2009 more... |
| UQ virtual software engineers success A UQ led project that allows undergraduate engineering students to gain valuable industry exposure, without donning a hard hat, has been recognised internationally. The collaborative software project between UQ, Curtin, Melbourne, Monash and Sydney Universities, brings a real processing plant to the user through a set of Virtual Reality (VR) Immersive Environments. UQ News, 5 January 2009 more... |
| College courses: even 'offline' classes are online now A recent edition of Science contains a series of perspectives on how computer technology is changing the education system. Some of them focus on the purely hypothetical, such as the use of MMOs for educational purposes or the development of immersive artificial environments for education purposes. Two of the papers, however, review a real trend in education: the growing access to everything from educational materials to entire degree programs via the Internet. more... |
| Stone Age family discovery makes TIME 's Top 10 The discovery of the world's earliest 'nuclear family', led by University of Adelaide DNA researcher Dr Wolfgang Haak, has been named in TIME magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of the Year. Dr Haak led a multidisciplinary team that unearthed Stone Age burials in central Germany, which yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The University of Adelaide News, 22 December 2008 more... |
| Tough year ahead for IT industry, warns OECD The economic downturn will hit the Internet economy hard in 2009, according to the latest available OECD estimates. OECD newsroom, 22 December 2009 more... |
| Response of Higher Education to today's challenges Professor Colin Brock, holder of the UNESCO Chair of Education as a Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford, talked with GUNI about the responses of higher education to the new challenges of today's society, such as multicultural student bodies and population excluded from higher education. He also reflects upon the boom of universities rankings and their impact on higher education institutions. GUNI, 29 December 2008 more... |
| Australia getting closer to joining information superhighway's fast lane The outcome of the national broadband network tender process is now in the hands of a government-appointed expert panel which has been given until early February to consider proposals. It is described as the most significant infrastructure project to be undertaken in Australia since the Snowy Mountains scheme and promises to catapult the nation into the information superhighway's fast lane. Australian IT, 22 December 2008 more... |
| Research grants boost national postgraduate numbers Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, announced that an additional 1000 Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) would be offered as part of the higher education research block grants in 2009. Ministerial media release, 19 December 2008 more... |
| Roadmap to advance Australia's digital economy The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, released a consultation draft on the future directions of Australia's digital economy. Ministerial media release, 19 December 2008 more... |
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