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Comprehensive Cancer Centres reduce cancer deaths, says US expert
World renowned oncologist Professor Richard Pestell, Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia USA will deliver a special Dean’s lecture at the University of Melbourne at 6pm tonight. Stem cell lawyer says let women be paid for egg donations
Last week, New York became the first state in America to allow scientists to pay women for donating their eggs for use in stem cell research, triggering further ethical debate.
Early childhood moves
The 2009 financial collapse of ABC Learning and its subsequent rescue by NGO consortium GoodStart, alongside new state and federal policies on education for children birth to eight years signal a new – and very welcome – direction for Australian Early Childhood Education and Care, writes Chair of ECEC at the University of Melbourne, Professor Collette Tayler. Putting children back into the child care debate
Media debate about early childhood education and care is rarely focused on children and children’s needs, but instead is mostly framed around adult needs and interests, according to recently published doctoral research from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. Katherine Smith reports.
August 2009
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