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UNSW Sydney solar expert honoured with Japan Prize for transforming the photovoltaics industry
The Japan Prize Foundation has announced that Australian Scientia Professor Martin Green is a laureate of the Japan Prize in the field of “Resources, Energy, the Environment, and Social Infrastructure” for his revolutionary work in the field of photovoltaics.
The annual prize is one of world’s most prestigious awards given to scientists who’ve helped to make significant advances in the fields of science and technology worldwide, thus furthering the cause of peace and prosperity of mankind. Each year two fields of scientific endeavour are honoured.
A parliamentary inquiry said the disparity between vice-chancellor pay and that of their staff who were in insecure work represented a “failure of leadership”.
Brexit Could Cost the U.K. Top Talent. An Education Leader On What Universities Should Do Now
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Professor Sir Ed Byrne, an educator and a neurologist, is one of the few people who can say, it s not brain surgery and really know what that means. He was knighted for his services to academia in 2020, after already being given the Companion of the Order of Australia, the country s highest honor, in 2014. He has spent the last six and a half years as president and principal of King s College London, where the Vision 2029 set out what a modern university could and should look like.
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Alliance of four universities to deliver game changer in education
The University of Newcastle, UNSW Sydney and the University of Wollongong – acting together as the ‘NUW Alliance’ – last night announced Western Sydney University would be joining the Alliance as a joint venture partner to together lead a new approach to collaborative education and research.
NUW Alliance CEO Matt Gijselman welcomed the announcement.
“The capabilities and expertise represented in this Alliance have not been brought together in this way in Australia before. The size and scale of this joint venture has not been seen before in Australia – 194,000 students plus 14,500 staff, working across 37 locations including 15 innovation hubs and driving $850 million in research funding. Today is a game changer in higher education. Together, and as individuals, we are among the world’s best,” said Mr. Gijselman.
Kustomer opens up new opportunities for marketers and for Facebook.
Facebook’s acquisition of CRM startup Kustomer is the latest – and biggest – sign that it is serious about allowing business marketers to better interact customers, while also allowing it to own more of the path to purchase. Here’s why.
When Facebook announced in October enhanced ways for businesses to manage conversations with people in Instagram and Whatsapp, it heralded the significant growth in interactions between people and businesses on its platforms.
This served as foreshadowing for Facebook’s acquisition of the customer management technology firm Kustomer. If approved, the reported $1bn acquisition will bring a robust set of tools into the Facebook fold that will give marketers new ways to automate customer service responses as well as improve interactions with customers – even when conversations happen outside of Facebook. The Kustomer platform boasts a “single screen view” of interaction