The enrolment information in the media release came from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). DEEWR has subsequently changed their information and the report has been updated accordingly.
The number of Australians studying science in years 11 and 12 has fallen significantly since the 1990s and is continuing to drop, a new report from the Australian Academy of Science shows.
At the time of European settlement in 1788, Australia’s landscape was not natural, but made. Aborigines made it, argues Adjunct Professor Bill Gammage.
In an Australian Academy of Science public lecture entitled The biggest estate on earth: Aboriginal land management, Professor Gammage asserts that Australia was a single estate and not an untamed wilderness as newcomers thought.
He describes how Aborigines used fire to affect the distribution of plants, and plant distribution to lure animals.
Mining, agriculture, urbanisation, tourism, invasive species and natural events such as flood and drought all exert significant and growing stresses on Australia’s diverse and delicate ecosystems.
The Hon. John Brumby will tomorrow launch a cross-disciplinary action plan to better predict possible stresses on Australia’s complex ecosystems and therefore better manage our remarkable natural resources.
The Australian Academy of Science today welcomed the emphasis of the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling on the need to improve education outcomes for every Australian student.
“We agree strongly with the report that ‘principals and teachers should encourage a culture of high expectations, continuous learning, and independence and responsibility for all students’,” said Professor Bob Williamson, the Academy’s Secretary for Science Policy.
Professor Williamson urged the Government to act quickly on the Review’s recommendations.
The Australian Academy of Science today launched an Australian Academy of Science initiative to better manage Australia’s stressed ecosystems, and announced a national working group to implement its recommendations.
Australian farmers are leading the world in conservation agriculture technologies – a fitting way to mark 2012 as Australian Year of the Farmer, according to Dr John Kirkegaard from CSIRO plant industry.
In an Australian Academy of Science public lecture entitled From dust bowls to food bowls: The conservation farming revolution, Dr Kirkegaard asserts that Australian farming systems are innovative, efficient and productive, and a far cry from perceptions of a ‘European’ style agriculture unsuited to Australia’s unique conditions.
The Australian Academy of Science and the Embassy of France today announced a new Fellowship program to help young Australian scientists work with cutting-edge French research institutions.
The France-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration (FASIC) Program Early Career Fellowships will support researchers in the following priority areas:
The Australian Academy of Science today opened applications for its 2013 round of prestigious awards, including career and early career researcher awards, travelling fellowships, research bursaries and conference support.
More than $200,000 will be awarded in honorific awards recognising outstanding work in Australian science, travelling fellowships to establish science links between Australia and the world, and research and conference grants to advance research in a range of disciplines.
Career awards
Seven Australian early career researchers have been selected from a highly competitive field to travel to Lindau in Germany to meet and learn from more than 30 Nobel Laureates.
Each year around 550 young scientists are chosen by the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings from over 20,000 nominations made by more than 60 countries.
The Australian Academy of Science has strongly urged the Government to invest in science to ensure Australia remains internationally competitive and relevant in the ‘Asian Century’.
In a submission to the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper being developed for Government by Dr Ken Henry, the Academy has outlined its plan to ensure Australia’s place on the world stage into the future.
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