Keywords: Tertiary Education
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EDUCATION
- Andrew McGowan
- 17 February 2009
5 Comments
A recent report into higher education is caught between discontent and fatalism about what prevents universities from doing better for students from the margins. The system's biggest failure may lie in what the report didn't ask.
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 12 December 2008
5 Comments
Widespread subject cuts and reductions in staff numbers have eaten away at students' plans and rendered the new breadth component impotent. Horizons seem to be shrinking, which makes it increasingly difficult to 'dream large'.
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EDUCATION
The current higher education review is hindered by a focus on 'productivity' and 'efficient investment'. Universities should be homes of knowledge whose graduates are more than just pegs to plug the holes in Australia's skills set.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 02 July 2008
10 Comments
When we began Eureka Street in 1991, it was a given that we'd publish a cryptic crossword. I like to believe it was divinely ordained that it should be Joan, only and always, who'd keep us gridded, intellectually tempered and clued up.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Woodward
- 23 May 2008
University education is predominantly text-based. The issue of whether there should be a stronger emphasis on the visual can be challenging, perhaps even threatening.
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AUSTRALIA
It is not just Joe and Jo Suburbia that have a lot riding on real
estate. Taking the heat out of house price
inflation is extremely difficult, because the whole system is based on
the expansion of credit and consumption that house price inflation
allows.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 24 April 2008
31 Comments
What Mozart and Michelangelo did with music and art, Maxwell and Euler did with numbers. But students would be better off learning a compulsory second language, rather than maths with little real-world application.
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AUSTRALIA
- Colin Long
- 05 February 2008
2 Comments
From Ubirr, the wetlands, verdant and abundant with birdlife, stretch to the fringing escarpment. In a place so full of the beauties of nature, one feels keenly the absence of its traditional owners. For Australian and overseas visitors to experience this view, they lost their land.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 09 January 2008
Everyone
must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures).
At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to
assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better
tomorrow. From 2 April 2007.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Colin Long lectures in cultural heritage at Deakin University. He is an urban historian with interests in Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian history and heritage, Australian urban and labour history, and heritage in post-communist societies. He is also the President of the Deakin Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 02 April 2007
28 Comments
Everyone must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures). At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better tomorrow.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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