Keywords: Secondary Education
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 July 2011
5 Comments
When I appeared on Q&A with Christopher Hitchens, a young man asked whether we can 'ever hope to live in a truly secular society' while the religious continue to 'affect political discourse and decision making' on euthanasia, same-sex unions and abortion. Hitchens was simpaticao. I was dumbstruck.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 June 2011
4 Comments
In May a German study revealed that one in three students in Berlin would consider sex work as a means of paying for their education. We've seen similar phenomena in Australia. In Sleeping Beauty, Lucy is a university student who finds herself drawn into working a bizarre niche in the sex industry.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 09 May 2011
17 Comments
One in ten primary and secondary teachers will be entitled to extra pay as acknowledgement of their performance. While this is positive, the evaluation criteria seems biased against teachers in disadvantaged suburbs or those who voluntarily teach in remote regions.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 04 April 2011
28 Comments
I recently spent time with a group of students from a remote community who had been at school down south. After a fight involving other Aboriginal students, they wanted to go home. Senator Jenny Macklin has suggested punishing Aboriginal parents who do not support their children attending school.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 24 March 2011
5 Comments
Teachers unions are painted as self-interested clubs whose safeguards for hard-working, quality teachers also extend to the lazy and incompetent, at students' expense.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
12 Comments
Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 01 November 2010
16 Comments
Principals and teachers can keep gay young people safe at school only to the extent that they are also safe in the wider community. While ticking boxes on ‘teacher training, resources and consultancy’ may not adequately address the source of the behaviour of homophobic bullies, such programs remain important.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 April 2010
21 Comments
On Monday night on ABC1's Q&A, Tony Abbott was asked about
the recent wave of boat people including Hazaras fleeing the Taliban
in Afghanistan. At the end of one recent meeting in Indonesia, a 15-year-old Hazara named Ali came and told me his heart wrenching story.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 26 February 2010
5 Comments
Many teachers argue that NAPLAN test results should be used to improve the standard of education, and not a lever for market-based competition. These critics are called secretive and defensive. Perhaps this is how Rudd and Gillard want them to be seen.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 03 February 2010
7 Comments
It is disingenuous for Labor education ministers' to say MySchool will create political pressure to boost 'under-performing' schools. Meanwhile parents, voting with their feet, may foster the very outcomes they fear: underprivileged, low-morale schools breeding a
generation of alienated, under-achieving kids.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Maryanne Loughry
- 24 November 2009
6 Comments
Visiting Kiribati and Tuvalu it is obvious that both populations are dealing
with overcrowding, unemployment, poverty, pollution, and modernisation.
Climate change is a driver for some of these stressors as well as a
multiplier of their effects.
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