by Mark Rosanes 16 Apr 2021 SHARE
Improving teacher quality will be the key element in the Federal Government’s efforts to raise the academic performance of Australian students.
On Thursday, Education Minister Alan Tudge launched a review of initial teacher education courses, which he said was the most critical element in arresting declining learning outcomes – particularly in reading, maths, and science.
The six-month review will be conducted by a panel of education experts, led by former Department of Education and Training secretary Lisa Paul.
Malcolm Elliott, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association, Derek Scott, 2019 Australian School Principal of the Year awardee, and Bill Louden, emeritus professor of education at the University of Western Australia, were also appointed as committee members.
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>, a research and funding organization established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The planned whole-genome approach to advance knowledge of specific weed species is a long time coming, according to project director Todd Gaines, associate professor of molecular weed science in CSU s Department of Agricultural Biology.
Large-scale weed control is usually accomplished by spraying herbicides, but weeds can adapt and evolve resistance to such treatments. Herbicides becoming less effective costs farmers billions of dollars, forcing increased use of unsustainable practices like soil tillage or even larger quantities of herbicides. In addition, there is a clear need to make herbicides more environmentally friendly and develop plants with fortified genetics that suffer less from emerging weed species.
by Anne Manning
published April 14, 2021
Every multi-acre farmer and backyard gardener knows weeds are a constant, formidable foe of successful plant production. Across the globe, weed management demands billions of dollars in annual herbicidal treatments, or soil-damaging tillage of fields so crops can grow.
An international group of scientists and industry professionals, led by weed scientists at Colorado State University, have launched an ambitious new project aimed at improved management of the most intractable species of weeds in the world.
The International Weed Genomics Consortium, comprising 17 academic partners across seven countries, assembles a global community of experts who will develop genomic tools that fundamentally advance humanity’s approach to weeds and crops. The $3 million consortium is supported by $1.5 million in industry sponsorships and matching funds from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), a research and funding organization establi
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How Aboriginal rock art can live on even when gone
This article by Professor Joakim Goldhahn from UWA’s Centre of Rock Art Research and Professor Paul S.C.Taçon from Griffith University, originally appeared in The Conversation on 8 April 2021.
Aboriginal rock art unfolds stories about the present-past and emerging worlds, often described by an outsider as the Dreamtime. Some rock art, it is believed, was put in place by spiritual and mythological beings. Many of these Ancestral Beings travelled vast distances, and their journeys link places, clans and different rock art paintings.
Other images were created to educate children about cultural protocols, or just made to tell an amusing story. The artists who created the works are also important. Some artists were prolific and appreciated. A person who made a hand stencil could often be identified by the hand’s shape.