CAPA alerts

Reflections on the state of the Pakeha nation 2012 | Katherine Peet
TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
Joan Cook, an Australian who loved Aotearoa enough to help educate us about the truth of our history, race relations, and the Treaty of Waitangi, for several decades. She died in 2009, shortly after her 80th birthday. By Katherine Peet Katherine Peet ...

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Dentists to brush up on latest technology
Philippine Star
According to event organizers, the UPCD led by Dean Vicente Medina III, the UP Dental Alumni Association led by its president, Dr. Arnon Rivera, and its incoming president, Dr. Armin Segarra, and Batch 1987 represented by Drs. Marivic Reyes, ...

Lords hear statement on Iran
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
These are in addition to the sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council itself. The Australian Foreign Minister has already announced this morning, at our joint press conference, that his country will replicate these new EU sanctions, ...

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Author and alumna honours Sir Zelman Cowen
UQ News
As at that time he was serving in the Australian Navy, he deferred the scholarship until after the war. He married Anna Wittner of Melbourne and they both moved to England. Again, he was Dux, this time in 1947 in Oxford postgraduate Law School.

FAISALABAD City News
The News International
This was revealed at a meeting of an Australian delegation, headed by Dr Debbie Templeton, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) managing director, at Syndicate Room here on Friday. Trade Data International Pty Ltd Australia ...

Grants up for grabs
Hindustan Times
Prospective students in need of positive news to help them traverse the last mile in the admiss ion and scholarship trek, rejoice — even at this time of the admission cycle, there are many funding opportunities for both undergraduate and postgraduate ...

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Sofia Echo
2011: The year that shook the euro
Sofia Echo
Zlatev has spent two terms as mayor of Shoumen in 1999-2007, at which time he was deputy chairperson of the national association of municipalities and a Bulgarian representatives to the EU's Committee of the Regions. He was last an adviser on regional ...

New CAPA president brings breadth, nous
The Australian
IT would be difficult to top Chamonix Terblanche for breadth of experience as incoming president of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. To go with her experience as an international student, a postgraduate course work student and now a ...

Research: Radical rethink
Nature.com
It is rare for a postgraduate project to completely change the focus of a lab as Dutton's did; but both students and mentors should embrace students' pursuit of tangential or parallel projects. Indeed, some researchers argue that it is crucial for ...

MPs debate Zoos (Regional Economic Development)
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
The park also encourages applications from professional researchers and postgraduate students who are involved in projects that are in line with their research missions. The safari park hosts many rare and endangered animals. ...

Report highlights uni funding inequities
Sydney Morning Herald
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations president John Nowakowski said a lot more funding was needed to adequately support studies. For example, a law student can pay up to $9080 with the commonwealth kicking in just $1793, ...

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Philanthropist, veteran journalist among UQ honorary doctors
UQ News
Tan Sri Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Suleiman, who completed his postgraduate training in nephrology – the study of the structure and function of kidneys – and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He joined the Malaysian government ...

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India Education Exhibition pulls in huge crowds
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
The participating institutions are offering 100+ undergraduate and graduate courses such as MBBS, BDS, B.Arch, Engineering, Law Management, Pharmacy and various Post Graduate /PhD programs. In addition, all the exhibiting colleges offer quality ...

Hills news in brief
Cadtle Hills News
The Australian Local Government Association is campaigning for continued federal funding to maintain local roads beyond 2014. Association president Genia McCaffery said a study of local road funding estimated a shortfall of $1.2 billion each year. ...

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The Age
No longer content to share the honours
The Age
Research by Graduate Careers Australia shows that, in general, postgraduate study pays dividends. Employment rates for postgraduates are about 10 percentage points higher than those for bachelor-degree graduates. Median salaries for postgraduates are ...

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Building Mental Wealth: Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Indigenous ...
Science Network Western Australia
... of the Decade prize sponsored by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. In 2010 Professor Moreton- Robinson received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence in Indigenous Research Methodologies. ...

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Fears NZ may downgrade aid commitment to Pacific weapons clean-up
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Kim Austin is a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies (Journalism) student on the Asia-Pacific Journalism course at AUT University. The stricken container ship Rena in New Zealand waters ... warnings for the Pacific. Photo: Maritime NZ Rena oil ...

Possible Outcomes of Potential NAFDAC, CPC, SON Merger
THISDAY Live
He is currently serving as Council Member, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, belongs to several professional bodies, and is a Fellow, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; Fellow, West African Postgraduate College. Led by the Director-General, ...

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Discord over cosmetic changes
The Australian
This surgery is considered a medical specialty by the Australian Medical Council, which means that only doctors who have completed the training program of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, or an equivalent program, can call themselves plastic ...

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Pragma Academy to improve standard of physical asset management in South ...
Mail & Guardian Online
All courses are developed in line with PAS 55 principles, and are accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) through the South African Asset Management Association (SAAMA).” Training is open to all companies. ...