Author: Oxford Australia
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OUP Australia opens its doors to innovation with HackLab 2019
Earlier in the year, OUP Australia welcomed educators, suppliers and distributors to its annual Hack Day, titled HackLab 2019. The day aimed to ignite a culture of innovation at OUP Australia and to hear and respond to the views and ideas of stakeholders on how it could better meet their needs. During HackLab 2019, six…
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Oxford resources shortlisted in Educational Publishing Australia Awards
Oxford resources have been resources shortlisted in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary categories of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia (EPAA). Organised by the Australian Publishers Association and sponsored by the Copyright Agency, the prestigious EPAAs recognise excellence and innovation within the educational publishing industry. We congratulate all who were involved in publishing the shortlisted resources across the…
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Kvetching about time – what it is and why the wealthy are more prone to doing it
An excerpt from Spending Time – The Most Valuable Resource by Daniel Hamermesh. Daniel will be appearing at the UNSW Bookshop at 2pm today. Kvetch, a Yiddish word now widely used in English, means “to complain or gripe habitually.” And a favorite complaint is that someone is stressed for time. One definition of stress is…
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Word of the Month – August: schmiddy
Schmiddy noun: a medium-sized measure of beer; the glass containing this. In a recently published comic encyclopedia of Australia, a section on beer provides an unflattering comment on the schmiddy: ‘If you are served schmiddys, the best approach is to leave immediately and find a less pretentious venue.’ (D. Knight, Strayapedia, 2017) The schmiddy is…
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Maths for Everyone: Why there is no such thing as a ‘maths person’
‘I’m not a maths person.’ That’s a statement you’ve all probably heard many times. However, the skills that students learn in mathematics are among the most practical taught in school. Mathematics underpins the world we live in and it teaches our children valuable problem-solving skills. Mathematics provides us with a language to explain much of…
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Oxford Australia to help the Federal Government adapt its language for the digital age
A lot has changed since the Australian Government last updated its Style Manual in 2002. In the same year, Silverchair dominated the ARIA Awards, while Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head was the highest selling single. We now live in a far more digital world — not just in the music industry —…
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A passion for teaching and literature have resulted in a Queen’s Birthday Honour for Rosemary Ross Johnston
Rosemary Ross Johnston has inspired many students’ love of literature throughout her career. Last month, her dedication to teaching and literature saw the Oxford University Press author and Professor of Education and Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney, awarded an AM in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours for ‘significant service to higher education and…
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We need to rethink the definition of a ‘healthy diet’
By Professor Karen Charlton, Adv APD, RPHNutr, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Australia Forecasts suggest that by 2050, 10 billion people will inhabit the earth, requiring the production of 70 to 100 per cent more food. This population growth and the global climate tipping point have challenged nutritionists to rethink the concept of what…