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Preferential Education Policies in Multi-Ethnic China : National Rhetoric, Local Realities
Full text linkShannon Burns. Childhood: A Memoir: Text Publishing: Melbourne, 2022. 272 pages. Paperback ISBN: 9781922330789 AU15.79
Full text linkWayne Bradshaw reviews Shannon Burns' Childhood: A Memoir (2022
Developing and evaluating a professional development plan pilot for doctors in unaccredited posts: A pilot study
Full text linkPurpose
In Australia, doctors from their third-year post graduation who are not on specialist training pathways frequently work in unaccredited posts with varying amounts of education and support. In 2019, the New South Wales Ministry of Health (NSW Health) and the Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) agreed on a pilot process for these doctors to develop a professional development plan (PDP). The pilot aimed to implement the process and evaluate its feasibility and acceptability.
Methodology/approach
The process was piloted at four sites in 2021. The evaluation methodology was informed by the non-adoption, abandonment and challenges to scale-up, spread and sustainability (NASSS) framework with data derived from site meetings, interviews with doctors in unaccredited positions and PDP supervisors, and analysis of PDPs and time required.
Findings
A total of 42 doctors undertook the PDP process, of whom 25 were interviewed. Of the 28 supervisors recruited, 13 were interviewed. Three sites reported successful implementation, with most doctors having a PDP in progress. Despite challenges associated with the diversity of the workforce and workplaces, all sites were supportive of the process being rolled out with appropriate resourcing.
Research implications
The research findings indicated that embedding a PDP process more widely across the state will be complex due to the diversity of the workforce and clinical workplaces.
Practical implications
The PDP process, while acceptable and feasible, needs to adapt to local circumstances, including the workforce, supervisory capacity and experience, individual doctor needs and available resources.
Originality
The evaluation supports the need for a supported PDP process for doctors in unaccredited positions.
Limitations
The findings may not be transferable to all NSW Health facilities or to other states or territories. Doctors who consented to be interviewed were more likely to be positive about the process than those who did not. The study did not include a cost evaluation or explore cost-effectiveness due to the short time frame
Bush Blitz collections and iNaturalist observations assist the recognition of a new species from New South Wales, Lomandra briggsiana (Asparagaceae)
Full text linkA new species of Lomandra Labill., Lomandra briggsiana R.L.Barrett & T.C.Wilson, is described from the Great Dividing Range and Western Slopes of New South Wales. The new species has affinity to the widespread south-eastern Australian species Lomandra multiflora (R.Br.) Britten, and to L. decomposita (R.Br.) Jian Wang ter & A.R.Bean and Lomandra ramosissima Jian Wang ter from Queensland. It has previously been included under L. multiflora as a ‘terete-leaved’ form in the Flora of New South Wales and recognised as Lomandra sp. Oxley Wild Rivers (T.M. Collins 924) on PlantNET. While the taxon has been known for some time, many of the existing collections are sterile or have only immature or old inflorescences present, and all but one of the collections represent only a single sex. Formal description has been prompted by the collection of fertile material during a Bush Blitz expedition in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park and good-quality photographs of flowering material posted on iNaturalist
Julian Tenison Woods in Japan: Two Journeys
Full text linkThe Linnean Society of New South Wales includes among its members Fr Julian Edmund Tenison Woods, a distinguished nineteenth century Australian scientist. From 1883 to 1886, Woods conducted scientific research and travelled in Southeast and East Asia. This included two visits to Japan. This article gives some reconstruction of his travels in Japan, outlines his scientific work, and provides some of the later output which Woods generated as author, as collector, and as artist. The article also touches on the secretive nature of his work in Japan, though without giving a definitive conclusion
Beyond trade: The European Union - New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Full text linkThe 2022 announcement of the European Union- New Zealand Free Trade Agreement was seminal for both sides. For New Zealand, the deal is projected to be worth up to an extra NZ$1.8 billion per annum by 2035. What is less evident is the motivation for securing the deal for Europe – New Zealand is only the EU’s 50th most important trading partner and accounts for 0.2% of its total trade. This article outlines three major benefits for the EU. Firstly, it symbolises that the EU’s neoliberal trading agenda is continuing in the face of perceived increased protectionism. Second, the deal includes a seminal clause of holding each partner to account in climate change responsibilities – a detail that should garner support from EU citizens. Finally, closer EU cooperation with New Zealand may add to the EU’s legitimacy in the Indo-Pacific
The Finn Episode in Beowulf: Line 108S(b) ac hig him gepingo budon
Full text linkThis paper reconsiders that elusive section of the Finn Episode in Beowulf which concerns the offering of a treaty in lines 1080-961 after the slaughterous fighting at Finnsburh. The difficulties of the Episode are notorious. The identification of the pronouns in lines 1085-87 has proved as much a battlefield for editors as the mebelstede of line 1082 proved for Finn and Hengest. This section of the narrative is further complicated by a group called the 'Eotenas', whose identity is one of the longest standing debates in the study of Beowulf. This paper takes issue with one received method of examining the cruces in this section of the narrative and proposes a new reading of line 1085(b), the point at which the terms are first offered. l.e. Finn Episode is a narrative within a narrative. It is recounted by a Danish minstrel, Hrol'gar's scop, who, at a banquet to celebrate Beowulfs defeat of the monster Grendel, sings of the fighting between a certain Finn and a hero of the Half-Danes, Hnref Scyldinga. This long account is contained in ninety lines commencing from line 1068 and concluding at line 1169. What is the mode of narration of this episode? What occurs in the narrative? What features of the narrative are placed in the foreground by the mode in which it is recounted in Beowulf! A discussion of the difficulties in lines 1080-96 raises such questions, but, in the course of exploring these lines, one needs to remember also the mode in which the narrative was received by an audience of listeners. Since the narrative was orally delivered, I ask the reader to forgo one of the usual advantages of the printed page and to imagine that the narrative unfolds itself phrase by phrase, without that reassuring support given by a stretch of subsequent printed text which tacitly promises to explicate any immediate obscurity