Corporate social responsibility and ethics are under the spotlight again, and business schools are helping with the re-examination of practices. Jeremy Gilling reports. The corporate social responsibility message has been out there for quite a while, but it may have ...
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The shift away from maths starts in high school where, if they enrol at all, it is in the easier subjects. Jeremy Gilling reports. Stagnating university commencements in maths and statistics in recent years, particularly at bachelor level, and ...
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While the challenges facing the agriculture industry are not unique, they deserve special attention. Jeremy Gilling reports. The problems confronting agriculture as a discipline and a vocation are familiar to other professional areas. The workforce is ageing – the ...
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Corporate Australia has caught on to the fact that philosophy graduates bring critical thinking to thorny ethical and analytical problems. Jeremy Gilling reports. Whether postmodernism, cultural criticism and other relativist dogmas are to blame for the demise of the ...
More »Collaboration: 4700 years in coming
Collaboration between doctors, nurses and allied health professionals is very much on the national agenda, but there’s a long way to go before it’s accepted as the norm. Jeremy Gilling reports. Imhotep, the first physician known today by name, lived ...
More »Many ways to skin the IT cat
Universities have responded to falling IT enrolments in a range of innovative ways, reports Jeremy Gilling. Among those who are cautiously optimistic that Australian universities are starting to witness an upswing in ICT enrolments are Michael Blumenstein and Paul Bailes. ...
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