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‘What should the duty nurse do when a relative arrives unannounced in the ward with a bunch of papers for an elderly, frail patient to sign?” asks Nick O’Neill. This he says is just one of many familiar situations people ...

Artist-academics face difficult choices in reconciling their diverse roles and fulfilling the university’s research expectations, reports Jeremy Gilling. The creative arts disciplines have taken something of a battering over recent decades of structural change in the tertiary education sector. But ...

Four pharmacy schools will form a unified voice. Four of Australia’s six original pharmacy schools have formed an alliance to provide a national voice in education and professional development in advance of national accreditation of the health professions. The University ...

Many Indian students arrive in Australia knowing little about the country, an Indian student says. Indian students should make more effort to find out what living and studying in Australia entails, an Indian journalist and student told the Sydney Writers’ ...

Do employers value a specialist BA over a generalist one? A spin-off research project aims to find out. Just how employable is a BA graduate? It’s a good question, and one that is being explored in a spin-off project from ...

The often very different life experiences of health professionals and indigenous people means they don’t always know how to talk to each other, says Tricia McCabe. McCabe, senior lecturer in speech pathology at Sydney University, heads an ALTC-funded project to ...

Architecture schools feature prominently among the short-listed entries for the Vienna architecture biennale Australian universities have made a big impact in the competition to determine which designs will feature in the Australian pavilion at the 2010 Venice architecture biennale. And ...

Two of the ambitious VET targets the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has set may be much closer to fulfilment than they realise. It all comes down to what is and isn’t counted. COAG has called for a halving of ...

Online intro: The Cuban leader’s eldest son was blown away by six Australian universities’ cooperative scientific venture. Fidel Castro was reportedly fascinated by the facilities of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility based at Sydney University when he visited ...

A new dance residency program at UNSW could help enhance practice-led scholarship and research in the creative arts – and perhaps also encourage more men to enter this heavily female-dominated field. Erin Brannigan, lecturer in dance in UNSW’s School of ...