International students in Australia’s top universities do every bit as well as their Australian counterparts, according to a comprehensive study of Group of Eight student pass rates. The research by IDP Education looks at subject results for six groups of students – domestic and international, females and males, undergraduates and postgraduates – and finds very little difference in their academic performance. IDP News, 7 October 2009
Archive for October, 2009
33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR).
Researchers find way to reduce energy used by computer processors
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a structure that would allow computers to process large amounts of information using less electrical energy. The new research could eventually reduce energy costs for colleges, universities, and other institutions that must process and store large amounts of information. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 October 2009
Australia ‘committed to student safety’
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has assured his Indian counterpart Australia is committed to ensuring Indian students are safe while studying in Australia. Indian Minister of External Affairs Somanahalli Krishna welcomed the assurances. The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 2009