Flinders’ best in teaching receive awards
Three individual academics were the recipients of the 2012 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching.
Teaching and learning
Fishy business idea is a winning plan
A scheme to farm rainbow trout and organic vegetables has won the Flinders University Business Plan Competition.
Research only one part of innovation: Vice-Chancellor
Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Barber says research is only one in a range of factors contributing to the process of innovation that universities need to foster.
Celebration chimes with today’s Indonesia
Indonesian music will ring out from the Flinders University Pendopo tomorrow – but it won’t just be the mesmerising traditional sound of the resident gamelan orchestra.
Flinders scores $3.3 million funding boost
Researchers from Flinders University will share a pool of $3.3 million, awarded this week as part of the Australian Research Council’s 2013 Discovery and Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) funding scheme.
Culture and identity, matters for reflection
Universities have an obligation to participate in debates over national culture and identity, according to Professor Julian Meyrick.
Flinders and TAFE to make dual offer
Flinders and TAFE SA have combined to make it easier for students to gain both a vocational qualification and a degree with the launch of a Dual Offer program for 2013.
Refine teaching to improve scientific literacy
Biologist Karen Burke Da Silva is on a quest to increase Australia’s levels of scientific literacy.
Science, engineering scholarship boost
Flinders will offer a new $8000 per year scholarship to a science, information technology or engineering undergraduate student in 2013.