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else claim that knowledge and the opportunities that it provides or we can embrace it
ourselves, hoping that there is still time.

ENDNOTE

In this context, what Ashley & Padgett (1997) and others, e.g., Little et al. (1999, pp. 106-
112), writing from the US perspective, refer to as a course is known as a subject in
Australia. A course in Australia is a sequence of studies leading to a qualification such
as a bachelor's degree.

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