Google Scholar. A broad search for scholarly literature. Users can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. [Recents Items] [Bill: Education - International]
Daily Archives February 8, 2006
McDonalds looks overseas to fill WA jobs. The fast food chain McDonald's has started recruiting workers from the Philippines to combat labour shortages in Western Australia's north-west. [ABC News: Business Stories]
Education : Measures of quality and impact in publicly-funded humanities, arts and social sciences research. This CHASS report into the evaluation process for humanities, arts and social sciences research claims to have found a fairer and more inclusive way to identify the most important and useful research in Australia. [Creative Economy : Topic Articles]
The Age Newspaper reports today: VICTORIA'S teachers union has moved to ease concern about its support for private funding of school buildings, releasing a list of conditions it says will protect public schools from privatisation. In a document sent to members this week, the Australian Education Union's Victorian branch said public-private partnerships should only be used for the building and…