Victorian students are taking advantage of a unique opportunity to improve their foreign language skills through regular meetings with migrant seniors whose first language is Chinese, German or Spanish.
Now in its third year, the Connecting younger second language learners and older bilinguals program is led by Dr Marisa Cordella from Monash University’s School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Working [...]
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Students and seniors connect
May 15, 2012 – 5:11 pm
Two new paths to literacy for South African schoolchildren
May 15, 2012 – 5:05 pm
Children in Zandspruit, South Africa will have not one but two of their first-ever libraries to look forward to through the Monash Krishna Khetia Library initiative.
Zandspruit’s two local primary schools, Masakane Primary School and Zandspruit Primary, will house the libraries for the project, developed by the Community Engagement team at Monash South Africa (MSA) to [...]
TRANSLATION, TRANSNATION Winter School & Festival 2012
May 14, 2012 – 1:43 pm
The theme for the second annual Translation Winter School & Festival is TRANSLATION, TRANSNATION, giving emphasis to the connexions between transnational writing and the practice of translation. The event is aimed at students, writers, professional translators, language teachers and anyone interested in literary translation! A week-long residential programme of hands-on translation practice is accompanied by [...]
PSI Academic Lead Researcher on International Obesity Study
May 3, 2012 – 12:51 pm
Dr Kerry O’Brien, from the School of Political and Social Inquiry, is currently heading an international study on discrimination against obese women in the workplace.
The study has found that obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues.
The findings were recently published [...]
Anzac Story: “On Dangerous Ground”
April 23, 2012 – 3:40 pm
In 1915 Lt. Roy Irwin goes missing at Gallipoli. The young woman who loves him, and the men who fought beside him, begin their search. Later, in 1919, historian C.E.W. Bean returns to Anzac Cove with artist George Lambert and soldier Harry Vickers to solve the greatest mystery of the campaign and to discover Gallipoli’s [...]
Joint PhD Programmes with European Universities Strengthen our Global Engagement
April 13, 2012 – 11:46 am
The Faculty of Arts has secured Joint PhD’s with two prestigious European universities and there is a third pending. Partnerships with Goethe University Frankfurt and Università di Bologna have been signed and a further partnership with Freie Universitat Berlin will be signed off shortly.
The joint programmes complement Monash’s objective of building strategic global collaborations that [...]
Shipwreck to give up its history
April 12, 2012 – 10:38 am
The secrets of the deep will be uncovered when archaeologists excavate a significant colonial shipwreck in Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay later this month.
Leading Monash University archaeologist Adjunct Senior Research Fellow Dr Mark Staniforth from the School of Geography and Environmental Science and a 60-person team will examine the excavation, reburial and preservation of the Clarence, a historically significant colonial [...]
Monash Historian Appointed to ANZAC Centenary Board
April 4, 2012 – 4:45 pm
Monash University historian, Professor Bruce Scates, has been appointed as chair of the Military and Cultural History Working Group, one of six expert committees advising the Anzac Centenary Board.
In a recent announcement, the Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of Anzac, Warren Snowdon said the appointment of Professor Scates would play a key [...]
