1 person in 20 is affected by a rare disease. Over 6000 different rare diseases affect children and adults. Most are genetic, chronic and debilitating. But above all they isolate patients and their families. International Rare Disease Day is 28 February 2014. This year Rare Disease Day encourages us to continue finding ways to work together to provide the different kinds of care that people living with a rare disease need. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ … [Read more...]
The Scan
01/03/2014 by
1 March 2014 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Job cuts at La Trobe 28 February 2014 | La Trobe University has confirmed it is cutting 350 jobs as part of a restructure. University management told staff at a meeting this afternoon. It is understood the redundancies are compulsory, and will affect the university's Bundoora campus in Melbourne's north west as well as its regional Victorian campuses....[ MORE ].... TEQSA shake up 28 February 2014 | The government has introduced a bill to radically restructure the national higher education regulatory agency.The bill provides for a spill of the positions of the five commissioners … [Read more...]
