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Australian scientists substandard: report
Canberra :: Australia | 4 months ago
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Australian scientific research papers are below a key world standard, leading to calls by the country's chief scientist for a review of how research funds are distributed. A report by Professor Ian Chubb's office measured rates at which papers were
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ANU spending spree
Sydney :: Australia | 12 months ago
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Story continues below The report does note, however, that this compares unfavourably with the reported surplus of $142 million in 2010. Professor Young has predicted that that figure will this year fall to $14 million with another $30 million wiped
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Research funding based on popularity
Adelaide :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Ian Chubb says most research funding in Australia is based on a popularity contest and the subject choices of teenagers. He says governments need to work out how to give research funding to the subject areas where it was most needed, not where
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Girls avoiding 'hard' subjects
Sydney :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Story continues below Boys are more likely to study advanced maths than girls, at 60 per cent, while girls are slightly more likely to study basic maths at 53 per cent...Australia's Chief Scientist Ian Chubb said the report findings were ''sad'', but
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Fears for farming's future as students ignore agriculture
Sydney :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Story continues below The decline in agriculture enrolments is a long-term national trend, which Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, said posed a risk to Australia's food producing future and international standing, as well as a
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Aussie students ditching science - report
Sydney :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Australian school students studying science may be traced to the subject's heavy workload and "talk and chalk" teaching, a new report has found. The percentage of students in Years 11 and 12 who took science dropped from 94.1 per cent in 1991 to just
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Chief scientist calls for urgent climate action
Melbourne :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Tom Arup September 27, 2011 THE latest scientific evidence shows something needs to be done quickly to limit rising carbon dioxide emissions so they can start being reduced over a ''sensible period of time'', Australia's chief scientist says. At an
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Treasury defends carbon price modelling
Canberra :: Australia | over 1 year ago
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Treasury macroeconomic executive director David Gruen told a parliamentary inquiry the department had made assumptions about international climate change action based on the "best information" available now. "The modelling is based on the US taking
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Pacific Front Line of Climate Change, Says UN Secretary
Bairiki :: Kiribati | over 1 year ago
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Sep 20, 2011 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was the first UN leader to attend the Pacific Island Forum. (Bradley Ambrose/AFP/Getty Images) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said his recent visit to the Pacific had reinforced the urgency of action on
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Climate debate 'appalling'
Sydney :: Australia | almost 2 years ago
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NEW Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has lamented the quality of public debate on climate change, saying it ''borders on appalling'' and the level of scientific literacy among politicians is ''not high''. In his first major speech as Chief Scientist,
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