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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Australian Schools?
Message-ID: <167@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 13:20:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  8 13:20:07 1984
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Australian school schedules are:
 Infant, grade, high schools: Start in (early) Feb.
				End in (mid) December.
 Universities:		      Start in March.
				End in (late) November.

Breaks are in May for fall break and Sept for spring break.
Christmas break is the long *summer* break between grade levels.

PhD pgms in Com Sci:  Contact the Austrailian Embassy in Wash D.C
	or the "Australian Consulate General" in the large cities.
	Some Univ to consider: Sydney, NWS; Flinders, SA; UW Melbourne, VIC;

The above info provided by my wife (an Aussie) and she insisted that I
add a statement to the effect that Australian schools are of a very
high standard.  So done.  Undoubtly, now that they've *got* the America's Cup,
their standards will fall as is the likely case with any group with big heads.
-- 
	Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI
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