Wiggles blame rumours on magazines

THE Wiggles have hit back at rumours the foursome is breaking up.

Dr Work

Q I received an email saying I can get a university degree in any field. There was no mention of any cost. Are these degrees recognised in Australia?A These emails come around on a regular basis. The latest one is giving out degrees from prestige universities with no examinations, tests, classes, books or interviews. "Bachelor, masters, MBA and doctorates available in the field of your choice" and "You can become a doctor and receive all the benefits that come with it". They usually indicate that ...

Publicity Stunts Or Not, Honorary Awards Not Quite What The Doctor Ordered

University doctorates for celebrities may devalue the achievement, writes Harriet Alexander.

Much-maligned Judges Get It Right On Terror

Justice Anthony Whealy JUDGES get a bad rap these days. Once inscrutable pillars of virtue, you only really hear about them if someone is criticising their decisions. They are accused of everything from being political plants to falling asleep on the bench. And then along comes Justice Marcus Einfeld, with his dodgy doctorates and unusual excuses for traffic violations, bringing the reputation of the judiciary lower still.

Horne, Campion Receive Doctorates

The University of Sydney yesterday conferred honorary doctorates on Donald Horne and Edmund Campion. Professor Horne is well known for his 1964 analysis of Australia, The Lucky Country. He was Chancellor of the University of Canberra from 1992 to 1995. Professor Campion, author of 1981's Rockchoppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia, served as chairman of the Literature Fund of the Australia Council from 1995 to 1998. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the Catholic Institute of Sydney.

Music In Degrees:

Barry, left, and Robin Gibb of the pop group the Bee Gees, after receiving their honorary doctorates in music from the University of Manchester, in northern England, on Wednesday. The brothers accepted a posthumous honorary degree for their brother Maurice, who died in Florida, in the United States, in January 2003, after a heart attack.

Honour Is Music To Ears Of Bee Gees

TWO Bee Gees returned to their home town this week to accept honorary music doctorates, and a similar posthumous honour for their brother Maurice, who died from a heart attack last year.

Doctorate No

The University of Sydney's admirable decision to tighten its honorary award system is a welcome reform. The status of honorary degrees has been devalued in recent years, with universities increasingly bestowing honours on people who have not put in years of academic work to produce original research. Universities have long recognised the contribution of non-academics. Prominent political figures and religious, industry and community leaders are regularly given honorary doctorates, usually toward the end of

President To Accept Doctorates

Two Australian universities will award honorary doctorates to Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid when he next visits, in recognition of his academic and political achievements. Mr Wahid said last week that he had decided to accept the doctorates, from Deakin University and the Australian Nat

Women Academics Lose Out To Males In Pay And Progress

Female academics get paid much less than their male counterparts, take longer to complete their doctorates and are often forced to take extensive "career breaks" because of family commitments, a new national study has found. The study, commissioned by the National Tertiary Education Uni

Teaching Now By Numbers

First the glut, next the shortfall. Australian teachers are already in hot demand - and soon they'll be in short supply, writes GRAHAM WILLIAMS. UNIVERSITIES are wooing teachers with a wide array of postgraduate offerings - from diplomas to doctorates - all of which will make them hotter propert

A New Lois O'donoghue Comes Back Fighting

The new Lois O'Donoghue appeared publicly in Sydney for the first time yesterday, choosing the Australia Day holiday to warn that if Australians had no interest in "the unhappy episodes in our past" Anzac Day would end. Dr O'Donoghue - who has honorary doctorates from "seven or ei

Picking Winners In Jobs Market

WHILE once a tertiary qualification was a guarantee of future employment, these days there are people not simply with university degrees but with doctorates, who cannot find work. At the same time there are certain vocational categories where there is a particularly high demand for workers. Accor

When The Lingo Of Learning Becomes Quite A Mouthful

GOOD morning to those fine scholars who have just been awarded their doctorates of philosophy by La Trobe University. Please form an orderly queue at the library to read these theses: Angle-resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy using synchtron radiation for the study of semiconductors.

Uni's Tribute To Two Composers

Wednesday October 27, 1993

MACQUARIE University is in good company. Both Oxford and Breslau universities awarded honorary doctorates to composers, recognising the worth of Joseph Haydn and Johannes Brahms, respectively. Last Sunday, Macquarie University honoured not one, but two, Australian composers, Dulcie Holland

Uni Graduates Increase 70 Per Cent In Ten Years

Tuesday March 17, 1992

Up to 120,000 Australians will complete courses at university this year, a 70 per cent increase in the past decade. At graduation ceremonies across Australia over the next two months, record lines of students will queue to be awarded doctorates, degrees and diplomas. Whether or not Australia is

Ming And The Master

Monday February 17, 1992

SIR: Re Fred Osborne's observation (Herald, February 4) "Even Menzies, was cordially disliked by many who voted for him", I offer the following from an impeccable source. As part of its centenary celebrations, Sydney University conferred honorary doctorates on a number of distin

Png Link That Brings Three Former Prime Ministers To Wollongong

Friday December 8, 1989

WOLLONGONG University makes Australian academic history today by conferring honorary doctorates of letters (D.Litt) on three former Prime Ministers, Sir John Gorton, Mr Gough Whitlam and Mr Michael Somare. The link between them is Papua New Guinea. And the link between them and Wollongong

Bleyer's Honours Outlined

Tuesday June 20, 1989

Baron Neuman of Kara Bagh, the holder of 850 honours and 18 honorary doctorates, is facing charges over the formation of a "sovereign State" in the Snowy Mountains. The baron, 61, the founder and Supreme Lord of Aeterna Lucina, told the Supreme Court yesterday that he had issued

How To Keep A Good Marriage

Saturday March 11, 1989

PARIS, Friday: After 47 years of marriage, a Lyons couple have been awarded joint doctorates for a thesis on the subject they know best - love and fidelity. Denise and Pierre Stagnara submitted a thesis of 1,000 pages in which they came up with the conclusion that lasting marriage has two