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OMG! Zettabyte, bitcoin and hashtag are some of the tech terms in the updated Oxford Mini Dictionary
It might be small, but the fifth edition of the Australian Mini Oxford Dictionary offers an insight into the ever-changing nature of Australian English. Many words have newly entered the dictionary, and technological words were particularly prominent additions in the latest update, released today. These include: augmented reality bitcoin blockchain broadband content provider crowdfunding cryptocurrency…
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OUP wins third consecutive Secondary Publisher of the Year Award
Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUP ANZ) has received a third consecutive award for Secondary Publisher of the Year at the 2019 Educational Publishing Awards Australia. Oxford’s new-generation digital reading service Oxford Reading Buddy won the Primary Adaptations, Student or Teaching Resource award, and Oxford also won several awards across the Primary, Secondary…
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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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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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Celebrating the 600th title in the Very Short Introduction series: Reading
“We want to believe we are more than our brains. Are we? One of the reasons we continue to enjoy reading contemporary novels is that this is one of many compelling questions that they explore, because certain kinds of reading are above all a stimulus for our own minds. There is a tension or at…
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George Robertson Award winner Heather Fawcett reflects on more than 30 years in an ever-changing industry
Director of Higher Education at Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand, Heather Fawcett, was last week awarded a prestigious George Robertson Award by the Australian Publishers Association. Heather tells us about her experience in the Australian publishing industry and why she welcomes change. I’m thrilled to be a recipient of a George Robertson Award,…
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A tale of three schools
By Anthony Welch There has been much interest in the recent Schools that Excel series in The Age. The series aimed to reveal to readers which Victorian schools had improved the most in the past decade, according to factors including the number of students who progressed to university, or the median VCE scores. All of…
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Word of the Month – April: rolled-gold
adjective: first-class; absolute. Rolled-gold is used in Australian English to imply something undeniably good, first-class or genuine, such as a rolled-gold opportunity or a rolled-gold offer. Evidence dates from the early 1980s. The term is often found in the phrase rolled-gold guarantee, notably used in early 2018 by National Party deputy leader Bridget McKenzie, who gave a ‘rolled-gold guarantee’ that Barnaby Joyce would…