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Macquarie Community Engagement and Outstanding Service Awards 2008David Westcott, Department of Actuarial Studies, was recognised with an Outstanding Service Award for the establishment of the first professionally-accredited actuarial studies program at any university in the world, and for being instrumental in the development of double degrees at Macquarie University. |
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Two Macquarie Academics Awarded ‘Best Interdisciplinary Paper’ At International ConferenceEmeritus Professor Peter Eddey’s and Dr Chris Baumann’s research paper titled 'The relationship between English language proficiency and academic achievement in postgraduate business programs at an Australian university' was awarded ‘Best Interdisciplinary Paper’ by the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI) at a ceremony in San Diego in March. After receiving their award from the Alpha Iota Delta Honor Society Eddey and Baumann were then elected as members of the Honorary Chapter of the Society. Based on an investigation of 1049 graduates from postgraduate business programs offered at an Australian university, the paper examines the effectiveness of remedial English language programs to prepare students for postgraduate study. It was found that students required to take remedial English language training achieved lower grades in their postgraduate degree program compared to those assessed as language proficient. This is the second winning paper from this academy in which Baumann has been involved. A paper he co-authored with Associate Professor Sue Burton and Professor Greg Elliott, Predicting actual consumer behaviour in retail banking, won the Best Paper Award of the marketing track in 2005. |
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International Award and Prime Minister’s Australia 2020 Summit for Economics ProfessorEconomist Professor David Throsby will receive the Association for Cultural Economics International’s Distinguished Fellow award at their forthcoming Biennial Conference, to be held in Boston in June. In addition, as Australia’s leading cultural economist, he has been selected to take part in the Prime Minister’s Australia 2020 Summit as a participant on the 'Towards a Creative Australia' panel. Throsby has been a consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO, as well as many government organisations and private firms. In 1990-1992 he chaired three of the Prime Minister's Working Groups on Ecologically Sustainable Development. He was elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1988, and as a member of the Committee of Experts, helped to draft the recently ratified UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity. His book 'Economics and Culture' has been translated into 5 languages. |
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