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University of Melbourne continues support for elite music training
The University of Melbourne has welcomed the opportunity to continue its association with training for Australia’s elite classical music students, following Arts Minister Peter Garrett’s invitation to create a new Australian Institute of Music Performance (AIMP). Increase focus on disability, or the targets for the Millennium Development Goals will not be met, says global health expert
“Disability has to be addressed if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved,” says Beth Fuller, Disability Program Coordinator of the University of Melbourne’s Nossal Institute for Global Health.
Taking the panic out of pandemic
University of Melbourne researchers are helping to prepare for the next wave of flu, JANINE SIM-JONES reports. The 1918 ‘Black Death’
Sixty years later, Richmond people remembered it as the ‘Black Death’. It wasn’t bubonic plague, however, but the Spanish Influenza Pandemic that reached Australian shores in late 1918. It was a ferocious virus that struck down the young and the very old. Worldwide it killed many more than the Great War which had just ended, and it is only in recent times that the death toll in Africa, Asia and South America has been appreciated. Currently, the global toll is estimated as 50 to 100 million.
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Higher education challenges for 2008 and beyond
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