With policy, purpose and program in place, organisational leaders and trainers may believe they have mastered their workplace training implementation. However, there is one final step in the training lifecycle to ensure employee development keeps pace with business needs. In ...
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The urgent need for human poo donations to treat chronic gut infections could soon be eased, with innovative research to develop an artificial super stool. New research aims to create a new generation of microbial therapies that can replace donor-derived ...
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Informal words for other people we don’t identify with come and go, but wonk is unusual in having recently resurfaced after several previous appearances in Australia with different meanings each time. It’s recorded from the 1930s as a derogatory word ...
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Now officially in its second year, following a pilot, the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings is garnering more attention among institutions than before. This year, 1115 institutions are globally ranked, compared to 768 last year. The Impact Rankings measure ...
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Victorian scientists say they are "incredibly concerned" about the long-term defects COVID-19 may cause within the human body as researchers scramble to keep tabs on evolving mutant strains. Contemporary research has pointed to fatigue development, a loss of smell and taste, and heart, ...
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An Australian institution has maintained its top 5 spot on a list of the world’s best Online MBA programs. The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at UNSW Business School was the world’s fourth best provider in the 2021 edition ...
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Australia’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidate had potential but the false positives on HIV tests were too great a hurdle to move it into further trials, a study published this week has confirmed. The University of Queensland vaccine was abandoned last ...
More »Victoria to manufacture mRNA technology
Victoria will become the first state in Australia to develop mRNA vaccine manufacturing, making previously hard-to-access jabs more attainable locally in a year. The technology to manufacture the vaccines onshore will take at least 12 months to develop, with deputy ...
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Incivility is "almost a standard component” of the dean’s role in universities – and the issue is getting worse. That was one of the key findings to come from interviews with 20 faculty deans across eight universities. The study, by La ...
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This (sort of) commemorative article will try to juxtapose an aspect of the Thomist lex aeterna (in Latin, English translation ‘eternal law’) with two other concepts arguably derived from anthropology and feminist legal theory to be discussed below. Apart from ...
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