AUSTRALIA: Many foreigners but few PhDs. So difficult has life become for Australian PhD and masters by research students that the numbers starting the degrees are falling and completion rates are among the lowest in the developed world. At the same time, foreign student commencements in PhD degree courses have rocketed by 125% over the past six years.


Is this a sympton of lower levels of maths science competency of high school graduates, and career guidance during their teenage...

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Regional centres to boom now the bust has settled. SOME are calling it "payback year", others "the year of the investor". I see it as "the year of the regional centre". It's clear 2010 will be a different year to the previous one, with those who worked hard for not much reward in 2009 expecting better returns. These are the people looking for payback.



Kylie, AC/DC miss out on Grammys....

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Sziget August 2009 Music Festival Budapest 200,000 visitors from all over Europe


Australian Endeavour Scholarship and Research Awards for international applicants, and how to apply. Through the Endeavour Awards, the Australian Government provides opportunities for high achieving international students, researchers and professionals to undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in Australia in a broad range of disciplines.

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Queensland Music Festival

Property Bubble First home buyers are leaping aboard a sinking ship, with house prices set to fall about 20 per cent in the next two years, an Australian National University economist says. The "property bubble" is about to deflate and first-timers, encouraged through government grants to buy at the top of the market, could be over-committed when hit by job losses and, later, higher interest rates.

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