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Humanitarian aid can benefit donors too, says study 19 February 2014Last updated at 10:02 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Giving aid can help increase global influence, says the report Giving foreign aid can bring important strategic advantages to the donor country, according to a study by US and Australian academics. The study wanted to test claims that giving humanitarian aid was in the self-interest of the donor as well as the recipient. It found "compelling evidence" that regional influence could be increased by being a high-profile donor. The study examined how the US funded overseas HIV/Aids projects. Researchers at Dartmouth College in the US, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University wanted to see if there was evidence to support anecdotal impressions that giving aid brought "soft power" benefits to donor countries. 'Global opinion' The researchers say that major powers can gain more influence "by actually doing good". But the research says that it has to be the right kind of humanitarian aid.

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Gap Minder Understanding and Teaching the Australian Curriculum: Geography for Primary Schools Following the recent publication of the first-ever Australia Curriculum: Geography for F–12, primary school teachers are expected to play the key role in implementing the curriculum in Australian schools – yet most primary teachers are not geography scholars, and many are likely to lack confidence in teaching the subject due to their uncertainty about what it entails. Understanding and Teaching the Australian Geography Curriculum for Primary Schools is designed to ease the burden of primary teachers by showing them how to understand and use the curriculum they are being asked to teach. Features of the book include: By unpacking the Australian Curriculum: Geography in terms of that non-geographers can easily understand, this book takes work out of standards-aligned geography instruction, proving that geography is an interesting and important subject which imparts essential understandings and skills and contributes to the personal and social development of young children.

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