Tag: Study

Entries close soon for the University of New England’s Pitch21 competition which will award the winner $21,000 towards their MBA.

Research from Monash University in Melbourne conducted for the Queensland Government has found that employers are again looking at older employees as they get desperate to fill empty roles.

While relaxing on my balcony and making the most of a rain-free day, I sat eating my lunch and reading the Sunday Telegraph, I stumbled across an article by Brittany Stack: Aussies are working longer hours than ever: Dining al desko. She shared research, conducted by Mark McCrindle whom I respect greatly for his research accuracy, which identified:

Australian retailers are ahead of the curve in using email marketing to engage with customers, but most aren’t optimising it as well as their US counterparts, a Silverpop study has found.

According to a study conducted at Australian National University (ANU) children of older mothers perform best at school and develop advanced social skills.

Nielsen’s 2010 Internet & Technology Report has found the median Australian internet user spent 17.6 hours per week online in 2009, an increase of nine percent over 2008 with a 28.5 percent increase over 2007 levels of internet usage. Interestingly the increases in Internet usage have not seen a corresponding drop in individuals consumption of […]

New research conducted by the University of New England (UNE) has found that mothers who work part-time raise healthier children than both those who work full-time and stay-at-home mums. In the study of more than 4500 Australian pre-schoolers, the UNE study found that kids of part-time mums were eating less junk food, watched less television […]