Flinders makes record course offers, with places still available
Flinders University is experiencing strong demand for its courses in 2011, resulting in increased offers this year, and there are still places available.
Nutrition and dietetics
A new view on improving the health of South Australians
A one-stop source of information to promote physical activity, good nutrition and healthy weight will be officially launched today by Health Minister John Hill.
Flinders teams up with two of China’s best
Flinders University has established collaborative research and education centres with two of China’s top tier universities.
Flinders health agenda gets $5m injection
Flinders University’s capacity to deliver regional health education has been boosted with the announcement today of more than $5 million in funding from the Federal Government’s Rural Education Infrastructure Development Pool.
Saving people from themselves
The fundamental ‘disconnect’ between the public’s awareness of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and putting it into practice was explored at a conference this month, to launch a new Flinders University healthy lifestyles research group.
Flinders rewards its emerging best and brightest
Nine Flinders academics with brilliant research records who completed their PhDs less than 10 years ago are the inaugural recipients of the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Early Career Researchers.
Demand climbs for Flinders courses
Flinders University is experiencing strong demand for its courses across both niche and generalist degrees in 2010, registering an overall increase in applications of around 15 per cent over last year.
Southgate Institute officially launched
Monique Begin, twice Canadian health and welfare minister in Pierre Trudeau’s governments and chief architect of Canada’s Medicare, has launched the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University.
Macquarie Island clean-up gets down to grassroots
In addition to ironing out scientific problems, Sharyn Gaskin had to dodge elephant seals and curious penguins to set up a bioremediation project on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.