June 2014

The Rhodes Scholarships are postgraduate awards supporting outstanding all-round students at the University of Oxford, and providing transformative opportunities for exceptional individuals. One candidate is selected for the Rhodes Scholarship for each state each year. The Scholarship benefits include return airfares to London and a yearly stipend.

The aspirational Careers Through Reading program delivered by Aim High continues to inspire through storytelling.

Professor John Forbes AM has been recognised as one of the world's leading scientific researchers, with the release of Thomson Reuters list of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014.

Graduates have rated University of Newcastle (UON) teachers among the nation's best, placing them in the top 10 universities for teaching in an official national student survey.

The Roberta Sykes Scholarship provides supplementary financial assistance to Indigenous postgraduate students who wish to undertake studies at recognised overseas universities.

The Charlie Perkins Scholarships are postgraduate scholarships directed towards Indigenous Australians who have the potential to become leaders in their field of study and in their communities.

Frank Knox Memorial Fellowships are awarded to students from Australia for graduate study at Harvard University and include tuition and health insurance fees plus a stipend of at least $26,000 to cover living expenses for a ten-month academic year.

The General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholarships are one of Australia's most prestigious awards, recognising potential leaders in all fields. They are awarded to outstanding Australians graduating from Australian universities to enable them to study abroad at the world's best universities, appropriate to their field of study.

The Human Resource Services change process has resulted in a strategic, specialised team structure – now accessible via one direct number.

Enterprise bargaining continues to move towards the last stages of negotiation with a number of areas that have been discussed over many months being finalised last week.

Pioneering research by the University of Newcastle's Mothers and Babies Research Centre has led to the discovery of an electrical 'switch' in the uterine muscle that fails to engage in pregnant women who are overweight, potentially causing labour complications.

Newcastle Law School PhD student Kerryn Brent has been invited to a prestigious Climate Geoengineering Summer School