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Afghanistan? Somewhere West Of India, Isn't It?, Roger Patching

Roger Patching

For more than 10 years the senior co-author has been regularly testing tertiary journalism students on their "News Geography" - the ability to accurately locate on a world map 10 countries that had been in the news at the time, with which Australia has or has not had a bond. His co-author joined him in 1997 to compare results from two universities Charles Sturt and Western Sydney. They joined forces again in 2002 to compare the geographic knowledge of first-year journalism students at Queensland University of Technology with that of senior students at the University of Queensland. The most surprising …