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  • Funding information: IELTS Joint-funded research program 2012
    International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Joint-funded research program 2012. Educational institutions and suitably qualified individuals are invited to apply for funding to undertake applied research projects in relation to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) for a period of one or two years. Financial support for individual projects selected will in principle [...]
  • AAG’s R.M. Gibson Research Grants
    The Australian Association of Gerontology’s AAG’s R.M. Gibson Research Grants are to support emerging researchers in all fields of ageing. Awards are to encourage emerging researchers in ageing and depending on funding available for any particular round may be in the form of a grant-in-aid rather than the full amount applied for. Emerging researchers are [...]
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  • Sea sponges could act as early warning system
    Sea sponges may hold clues to climate change and other impending environmental risks, researchers from Flinders University believe.
  • Awards for twisted tales
    Lisa L Hannett has just won two accolades at the 2011 Aurealis Awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
  • Back to bed for Clarence
    Maritime archaeologists have been going to great lengths to unearth a Victorian shipwreck and its artefacts, only to bury them again.
  • SA speaks on death and organ donation
    Almost three in every four South Australians believe they should have the final say – not their families – when it comes to organ donation.

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  • "Teaching…I can see myself not doing that forever": The beginning teacher experience
    A study of the changing career expectations and required competencies of beginning teachers
    Creator: 
    Christine Gardner
    Creator: 
    John Williamson
    Creator: 
    Michelle Hinds

    Data suggests beginning teachers in the Western world, having invested their time, finances and effort into their University education, resign from their chosen profession within three to five years at a rate of 25% to 40%.

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  • 30-year trends show improvement in Aussie kids’ oral health (AIHW)
    Australian children's oral health has improved markedly over the last 30 years, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The report, Child Dental Health Survey Australia 2007: 30-year trends in child oral health, describes the oral health status of Australian children examined by school dental service staff in 2007. Caries in the permanent teeth of children aged 12 declined even more dramaticallyin 1993, children aged 12 had less than one-quarter the number of teeth affected by caries than in 1977.
  • ASIC leaves iSoft parties at sea
    ISOFT hopes shareholders won't let the supposed "benefits" one shareholder got cloud their vision on the takeover.


  • Benefits of seniors' exercise programs
    Canadian researchers show that weight training and muscle strengthening can help thinking ability and memory.
  • Department of Health & Ageing - Bulk billing rates at record highs
    THE HON TANYA PLIBERSEK MP. Bulk billing rates reached a record high in the March quarter, with 81.2% of GP services bulk billed. Bulk billing rates reached a record high in the March quarter, with 81.2% of GP services bulk billed.

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