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 [...]
UN says AUSTRALIA is second best place in which to live
AUSTRALIA is second best – almost but not quite the greatest place in which to live, according to the latest United Nations human development index. Norway pips us by a flared nostril. Australia scores 0.93 on a scale of 0 to 1, where 1 is the highest score possible. At 0.94, Norway’s margin over Australia [...]
Melbourne is officially Australia’s music capital!
A new report by Deloitte Access Economics and the recent announcements of Melbourne hosting some of Australia’s biggest public and industry events confirm what Melbourne residents already know – we are mad for live music! http://www.latrobe.edu.au/international-news/feature-articles/content/melbourne-is-officially-australias-music-capital%21
University of Sydney tops research rankings
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAustralianHigherEducationNews/~3/1SizuZ6lm5I/story-e6frgcjx-1226179883904 Notes on the Spanish-based company’s website styled as disclaimer notices say: “This ranking IS NOT A LEAGUE TABLE. The ranking parameter – the scientific output of institutions – should be understood as a default rank, not our ranking proposal.”
Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney
http://designrevolutionaustralia.com/2011/10/20/faculty-of-law-the-university-of-sydney/ The international competition for the New Law School was the most ambitious and significant development at the University since the great buildings of Edmund Blacket in the 1860s and Leslie Wilkinson in the 1920s. Architects selected to participate in this design competition included 3xNielsen (Denmark), Axel Schultes Architekten (Germany) in association with Stanisic [...]
Overseas students in Australia outperform their domestic counterparts
AN international education researcher says overseas students now outperform their domestic counterparts in the “gold standard” academic achievement measure. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/domestic-students-slower-to-progress/story-e6frgcjx-1226158466244
