December 7, 2007

New Australian Prime Minister Promises 'Education Revolution'

By LUKE SLATTERY

Australians elected a new prime minister last month, one who has promised to increase public spending on education and halt the "brain drain" of talented academics to universities abroad.

Kevin Rudd, the Labor Party leader who won an emphatic victory over the country's conservative prime minister, John Howard, has said he would give universities $3.5-million (U.S.) to increase enrollments in teaching, nursing, and medicine; devise a plan to lure midcareer researchers home from

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