ICTE-UQ Wins Queensland Premier’s Export Award
http://www.icte.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=167739&pid=128414
Queensland Government Supports Same-Sex Marriage
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has called on the national Labor conference to change the party’s platform to support same-sex marriage. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/bligh-puts-heat-on-federal-labor-over-gay-marriage-20111201-1o88c.html
US slow on international uptake: unis recruit few foreign students
Only one elite US university is among the top enrollers of international students as a proportion of their total student population. And institutions there make the top ten with as few as 12 per cent of students enroled. This contrasts with Australia, where international students, studying onshore or on overseas campuses, account for more than [...]
Business-education awards announced
GRIFFITH Universitys Richard John is the Business-Higher Education Round Table Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year, announced at a ceremony last night Associate Professor John has worked with state and local government on the Gold Coast to promote science education among school student since 2005, engaging with 125,000 people, including 5000 school science teachers. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/business-education-awards-announced/story-e6frgcjx-1226191249819?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAustralianHigherEducationNews+%28The+Australian+%7C+Higher+Education%29
UN: AUSTRALIA ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE IN THE WORLD
http://designrevolutionaustralia.com/2011/11/04/un-australia-one-of-the-best-places-to-live-in-the-world/
Australian Music’s Night of Nights, the Aria awards
MELBOURNE artists shone at the 25th anniversary ARIA awards at Sydney’s Olympic Park last night, with Gotye winning three gongs, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard inducted Kylie Minogue into the ARIA Hall of Fame. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/melbourne-musos-on-song-at-arias-20111127-1o1g9.html#ixzz1exIOV68p
Check out Griffith University’s Nathan Campus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYx-G0XAVhw
President Obama in Australia
http://www.smh.com.au/national/live-barack-obamas-australia-visit-20111116-1ni9j.html
Gold Coast to host Commonwealth Games in 2018!
http://designrevolutionaustralia.com/2011/11/12/gold-coast-to-host-the-commonwealth-games-in-2018/
German joint venture
Australia’s ‘Group of Eight’ universities and the German Academic Exchange Service have boosted investment in their five year old collaborative research joint venture by $1.3 million, backing their often expressed view that international engagement is the way of the future. Since the Go8-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme was established the pair has tipped in a [...]
