Home » Australia
Australia News on Dec. 18, 2018
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
VietPress USA : News source: www.reddit.com
10
The industry ombudsman shows free detailed performance for each insurer.
You can see how much they pay out as a percentage of revenue, what their customer retention is like, and how many complaints and investigations are against them.
1
Quite a few university textbooks are US/international textbooks specifically adapted for Australia, and that makes it harder to pirate find online because there's less people that need it.
Does anyone know of or have a resource for getting Australian-edition textbooks (or just textbooks assigned in Aus unis in general)?
2
This probably won't come to a shock for anyone and I apologise in advance for the irrelevant time of the article. However, I recently read an article on 'The Australian' website regarding science education and a report conducted in 2012. The reporter Leigh Dayton is a well know science communicator (UPDATE, found an additional report where numbers do add up). In her article she states "Only 4 per cent thought science was "almost always" useful in everyday life, while 60 per cent thought it "never" or only "sometimes" useful. Only 1 per cent thought science was "almost always" relevant to their future, while 42 per cent thought it was "never" relevant." I've now read the report, as thoroughly as an undergrad can and cannot find where these figures come from. It is slightly inconvenient that Leigh has not referenced her facts at all, shame on her, I thought Macquarie Uni produced a better calibre of students, I still stand by this as the link provided was incorrect. Regardless within the report, and you can find the full report here by the way: https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/HASReport_Web-Update_200912.pdf
...The numbers were for science students and non-science students. "The non-science students were asked how relevant science was to their lives and to society generally. More than half of them (56 per cent) considered science to be relevant to their future at least ‘sometimes’, while 42 per cent said science was ‘almost never’ relevant (see Figure 3.4.1)." Again neither 60% nor 1% is mentioned. Additionally "Ninety per cent of the non-science students recognised the importance of science to Australia’s future at least ‘sometimes’; only 7 per cent said science will ‘almost never’ be important for Australia’s future."
Furthermore, the articles preface is wrong "The majority of science students surveyed (65 to 80 per cent) had had positive experiences, being at least regularly excited and curious about the science they were learning".
Anyways there are likely many more of examples of conflicting evidence within the report, although I did not access the address to the National Press I would find it almost impossible to believe that this information was left out of the report but made available to journalists.
Summary, respect for The Australian as indicated by 100% of me is 0! The relevance of Leigh Dayton to science communication %0.
UPDATE apparently this is the report and figures do add up https://www.science.org.au/files/userfiles/support/reports-and-plans/2015/year11and12report.pdf
0
It’s a touching film.
13
Hạnh Dương
www.Vietpressusa.us