Melbourne top dog

11/10/2012 By
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The Australian    |    11 October 2012 Melbourne University's position as Australia’s leading university, as measured by various league tables, was confirmed with the release of the research-focused National Taiwan University Ranking.   Melbourne ranked 35 in the world, ahead of Sydney at 61 and University of Queensland on 72.  ANU, usually Melbourne’s closest Australian challenger, languishes in this particular ranking coming in at 172 internationally and 6th nationally Australia posted 13 institutions in the top 500 of the National Taiwan University Ranking. Australia has two top 10 institutions in specific areas: UQ in the subject area of environment and ecology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ANU, Macquarie University, Monash, Rankings, Research, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, Univesity of Western Australia, UNSW Tagged With: ,

Music camp to create and stage opera in just one week

04/09/2012 By
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UTAS Newsroom   31 August 2012 More than 40 talented young people from Tasmania and around Australia will come together from Monday 3 September 2012 for an Australian and possibly world first: the inaugural WotOpera Camp at the University of Tasmania’s Conservatorium of Music in Hobart. From diverse cultural, educational and SES backgrounds, the promising students aged between 16-19 will take part in the week-long intensive residency, taking comprehensive classes with industry professionals in singing, composition, stagecraft and creative writing. The students will develop and devise an opera entirely their own, and present it in a public performance at the UTAS Conservatorium … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community engagement, University of Tasmania Tagged With: , ,

The Scan 21 June 2012

21/06/2012 By
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Control and click headlines and highlights to link to articles. Links may not work unless you or your organisation is a paid subscriber to the originating media outlet.  Check with your communications people about subscriptions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jobs to go at La Trobe under “world ready” plan A new strategic plan (World ready: La Trobe in 2017) to re-position La Trobe University as it approaches its 50th anniversary will see the university adopt a new curriculum, introduce teaching-only positions, refocus its research efforts, slash unpopular subjects and shed under-performing staff.  The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deakin, International, International students, L a Trobe University, University of Tasmania Tagged With: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Bid to develop bushfire management system

24/05/2012 By
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 University of Tasmania Newsroom    22 May 2012 The University of Tasmania is hosting a Bushfires, Biodiversity and Climate Change workshop. The workshop will bring together a variety of participants hoping to develop a bushfire management system that will allowAustralia to cope with a changing climate that will almost certainly bring more bushfires. ___________________________________________FROM FRONT PAGE Professor David Bowman, UTAS School of Plant Science fire ecologist, will present at the workshop.   Climate change is likely to increase fire activity globally and south-eastern Australia is thought to be particularly vulnerable, as the 2009Victoria bushfire tragically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Research, Science, University of Tasmania Tagged With: , ,
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