Keywords: Private Schools
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 March 2011
3 Comments
Parents and teachers have absconded. A violent altercation is documented by students with camera phones. During a drug-and-booze-addled party, a girl is assulted and left for dead. A pricey education is no substitute for an ethical framework.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter McVerry
- 01 March 2011
7 Comments
Ireland's election was all about how to repay the country's debts. One hundred and fifty predominantly well-educated and skilled young people are expected to emigrate each day over the next two years; not only because they have no jobs, but because they have no hope.
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EDUCATION
- Chris Middleton
- 08 February 2011
48 Comments
A recent poll shows 70 per cent of people think the Federal Government gives too much money to private schools. Catholic schools have contributed enormously to the Australian community, and thus make a claim for some funding on the basis of the common good.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 January 2011
13 Comments
The furore that erupted when Chinese-American mother Amy Chua accused Westerners of being too soft on their children masks a subtle sharpening of middle class parental expectations in Australia.
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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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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 October 2010
4 Comments
It is possible to represent MacKillop as a brave woman, a feisty woman, her own woman, a feminist before her time, a woman who resisted clerical tyranny, a scourge of pedophilia and an activist for the poor. Each of these descriptions misses what was central in her.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 29 July 2010
7 Comments
In 2012 Australian universities will experience a radical shift in government policy, resulting in a marketplace where universities must hawk their wares in a bid to attract the best and brightest. Whether all the present universities will survive in this competitive marketplace is an open question.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa
- 02 July 2010
1 Comment
Survivors of the Indian Residential Schools who testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission complained of shocking treatment, violence
and sexual abuse. Testimonies left
no doubt that Canada's churches were heavily culpable.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 28 April 2010
19 Comments
Julia Gillard has not truly engaged with concerns from teachers,
principals, academics and parents regarding the overemphasis on NAPLAN-based school comparisons. For many teachers, the professional and only ethical thing is to oppose such moves.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Furtado
- 20 April 2010
30 Comments
There is much to salvage from Howard's policies, misconstrued as
universally liberal and bereft of state intervention in the interests of
the underprivileged. More could be done to link such a policy frame with several
aspects of Catholic Social Teaching.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 23 February 2010
12 Comments
Adolescence is a time of violent, primitive emotions, of play-acting and the most intensely lived reality.
Boys' passionate assertion of relative worth is
developmentally necessary. That child's place in the society of his
peers is, for that moment, a matter of life and death.
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