Growth figures force market down. Australia's worst economic growth rate for five years has weighed on investor confidence, pushing the share market down a little. [ABC News: Business Stories]
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Australian Certificate of Education: Exploring a Way Forward. In June 2005, the Australian Government commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), to investigate and report on models for an Australian Certificate of Education. Public comment is being sort on the findings of this report. [School Education Headlines]
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Australian Suicide Research Recognised by WHO. The Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP) at Griffith University has been officially designated a World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention. AISRAP becomes only the second such centre in the world to hold the WHO distinction. It will drive research and practice to overcome the…
More than 1200 'learning objects' drawn from Toolbox materials designed to support the delivery of vocational and technical education (VTE) qualifications are now available for download from a new repository. The Toolbox Learning Object Repository is a searchable database of 'learning objects' that has been made available by the Flexible Learning Toolbox Project of the national training system's e-learning strategy,…
EVERY Victorian school and TAFE student will be given an academic identification number to track their performance and better help students with literacy and numeracy problems.
MIT and Energy for a rapidly evolving world. “The numbers are overwhelming,” Henry Jacoby tells us in his overview of the final forum panel. The U.S. consumes one-quarter of the world’s energy and emits one-quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide. The combined population of India and China is nine times that of the U.S., so what will happen as they approach our…
Using MySQL on a Mac. For many Macintosh users, the relational database is first and last encountered through recent versions of FileMaker Pro. While Windows users have long utilized Microsoft Access, there has never been an equivalent product included in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. Since the move to Mac OS X and its BSD underpinnings, however, several of…