Posted in Local News, tagged "icing on the cake", $, $820000 win, 50's, 820000, claim, couple, earlier, family, friends., Lotto, Lotto draw, numbers, prize money, purely, Quinns Rocks, retire, Saturday, secret, weekend's, win. on August 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A Quinns Rocks couple in their 50’s have wasted no time coming forward to claim an $820,000 win from last weekend’s Saturday Lotto draw.
The couple said that the prize money is the “icing on the cake” and will allow them to retire earlier than they’d expected.
They have decided to keep the win a secret from all family and friends.
The winning ticket was purchased at Ocean Keys Lottery Centre in Clarkson.
Posted in Immigration News, tagged academic, academics, Amid the fallout from the global financial crisis, baby-boomer, briefing paper., chris evans, competition, ease, economy, exodus, globally, government, immigration, Immigration News, improved economic conditions, large, lecturers, lobbying Immigration, looming, migration, Minister, numbers, offshore, overcome, professors, recovers., recruit, restrictions, retire, rising, shortage, skills shortages, Social Web links, The ATN, the Government in March moved to cut the permanent skilled migration intake. But universities, universities, workforce on May 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
UNIVERSITIES are urging the Government to ease immigration restrictions on academics to help head off a looming shortage as large numbers of baby-boomer professors and lecturers retire.
Amid the fallout from the global financial crisis, the Government in March moved to cut the permanent skilled migration intake. But universities, which see migration as a way to overcome looming academic skills shortages, are warning that the move could leave the economy short when it recovers.
universitiesof five universities, said in a briefing paper.
“In fact, it has the potential to see the economy left wanting precisely at the time we expect to see improved economic conditions.”
The ATN is lobbying Immigration Minister Chris Evans to ease restrictions on academic migration to make it easier to recruit offshore amid rising competition globally for academics.
Between 1994 and 2006, Australian universities employed more than 7000 academics from overseas on permanent or long-term arrangements.
“This figure will need to grow expotentially to replace the exodus of academics leaving the workforce in the next 15 years,” the ATN said.
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