Volume 14‚ Number 3‚ 2012 © WIETE 2012 Global Journal of Engineering Education It’s a man’s world: the academic staff gender disparity in engineering in 21st Century Australia Ian R. Dobson University of Helsinki‚ Helsinki‚ Finland University of Ballarat‚ Ballarat‚ Australia ABSTRACT: This article examines the academic staff gender disparity in engineering in the 21st Century through an analysis of Australian university staff statistics. The proportion of female academics in engineering
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Unemployment Unemployment refers to those people who are willing and able to work‚ actively seeking work but is unable to find suitable employment. In Australia unemployment is measured by a monthly telephone survey of the labour force conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). These unemployment statistics reflect the number of people who are not working but actively seeking it. To be classified as actively seeking work the following criteria must be followed: regularly checking
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with the physical environment that sustains them developing the ability to identify ecosystems at all scales‚ from a small patch of vegetation to the earth’s biosphere developing the capacity to identify and describe the major biomes of Australia and the world‚ and explaine their spatial distribution understanding the relationship between climate soils and vegetation. Geographical understanding and context Biomes are major world ecosystems characterised by distinctive climates
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(called input tax) to production. Only the difference is remitted to the tax authority. Nevertheless‚ the cost of GST is actually borne by final customers. However‚ not all supplies are standard rated supply‚ which are subject to proposed rate of 4%. Malaysian government has announced that some 40 items‚ mostly essential consumables and commodities will be free of GST‚ that is‚ either the items are exempted or given a zero-rating. The only difference is that input tax credits can be claimed by
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Salinity is a major environmental issue in Australia. Salinity describes the salt content of water or soil. When the salt content rises to an extreme‚ it degrades the water quality and land efficiency. This is the problem that is being faced in Australia; salt levels are becoming so extreme that is affecting plant and animal survival‚ thus damaging infrastructure. Dryland salinity is caused when the rising water-table surfaces natural salts in the soil. The salt remains in the soil and becomes
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Contents Introduction 3 1. Product & Company 3 1.1 Geely in Australia 4 2. Environment of Australian 4 2.1 Australia automobile market 5 2.2 China-Australia FTA 5 2.3 Opportunities and challenges 6 2.3.1 Opportunities 6 2.3.2 Challenges 7 2.4 Intermediary 7 2.5 Mode of transport 8 2.6 Regulatory Control & Documentation 9 2.7 Marketing Strategy 9 3. Conclusions 10 4. Reference 10 5. Appendix 10 Introduction The automotive trade is a major
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completed successfully‚ a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark. Failure to carry out a task Failure to perceive Failure to anticipate Fail product in local market In Malaysia‚ there is a lot of product failure and it just too numerous to say it one by one‚ most of them‚ it did not even catch the public attention‚ basically‚ the public don’t even know the existence of the particular product. There is so much
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Master General Department was established in 1901 on the federation of Australia as part of Australia’s government. In the later years‚ Post Master General Department (PMG) was separated into two different sectors which consist of the Australian Telecommunications Commission which is to handle the telecommunication sectors and also Australian Postal Commission which handles all the postal services under the trading name of Australia Post in 1975. In addition to that later in 1989 the Australian Government
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Today‚ firms believe that the system of internally coherent HR practices associated with organizational strategies‚ rather than separate HR plans being practiced in isolation‚ may boost organizational performance and productivity. Education in Malaysia is overseen by one government ministry. The Ministry of
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to meet the call warrant holders’ conversion in the event the underlying share price rises above the conversion price. Background • Number of call warrants which have been issued so far in Malaysia‚ Singapore and Hong Kong is as follows: No. of call warrants issued Bursa Malaysia 124 Singapore Exchange 596 Hong Kong Exchange (including put warrants) 5379 • Call warrants are generally bull market instruments in the sense that they tend to do well when the markets are bullish
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