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Australia Ashes, Skill Shortages, RBA, House Prices, PrivateColleges, VET, Regulation
Cycling to the Ashes.... 14 months...25000km on a bike... London to
Brisbane ... with a cricket bat. Met this English bloke Oli in Budapest at our local, he has been staying at a friend's hostel and playing cricket. He is on his way by bicycle to watch the Ashes in Oz late 2010. His Blog Cycling to the Ashes. http://cyclingtotheashes.wordpress.com/ His Website Cycling to the Ashes. http://www.cyclingtotheashes.com/ He is open to sponsors, ideas, whatever! Surgeon shortage threatens regional health. A critical shortage of general surgeons in emergency wards across the country is threatening the 7 million Australians living outside metropolitan areas. General surgeons are required to deal with almost any surgical emergency, from hernias to hip replacements, and are the essential ingredient in keeping full-scale surgical care operating effectively in regional areas. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin Reserve Bank unfazed as housing prices keep rising. WORRIED that $500,000 is too much to pay for a Melbourne house? The Reserve Bank isn't worried and it expects prices to climb higher still. In a speech that amounted to a defence of Australia's historically high house prices, Reserve Bank deputy governor Ric Battellino told a Melbourne housing conference yesterday to expect worse and to recognise that buyers were getting value for money. Who needs advertising when the real estate industry has the RBA spruiking on their behalf? House prices would be boosted by increased population growth and immigration, solid increases in household incomes and ''substantial competition'' for construction industry workers from the mining sector. http://www.theage.com.au/national/re...1125-jrts.html Really? Independent Skilled Migration processing suspended, student numbers trending downward, baby boomers retiring etc,? Meanwhile more housing costs to increase…. Households to foot emissions scheme bill. The upshot of the events in Canberra yesterday and today is that the Government's emissions trading scheme will be passed by the Senate sometime later this week - barring miracles or accidents. The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme requires businesses to pay for the carbon they emit and that means we will all have to pay, but how much? On July 1, 2011, it will cost to emit carbon dioxide. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin Private college system a fiasco in need of a fix. Even as the rot in international education is laid bare, the Brumby Government would like us to believe the problems with private colleges are restricted to a handful of small, fly-by-night operators. Rubbish. The recent closure of nine colleges in Melbourne and Sydney left nearly 3000 stranded foreign students clinging on to nothing more than hope. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...1123-ixi3.html Gillard holds to VET education regulator plan. FEDERAL Education Minister Julia Gillard will press ahead with plans for a national vocational education regulator, despite the refusal of Victoria and Western Australia to sign over their powers. The Government will legislate next year to create the regulator, which will accredit colleges, including those offering courses for international students. Finally, though WA probably wants to retain control re. mining industry training etc., Victoria because they are incompetent in regulating dodgy colleges.... http://www.theage.com.au/national/ed...1122-isup.html AIEC http://www.aiec.hu |
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