Keywords: Tertiary Education
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Donahoo
- 08 March 2007
6 Comments
Our idolising of childhood and youth means we treat them like demi-gods, and in doing so fail to honour their humanity. UNICEF research shows that the overall health and well-being of Australian children is poor compared with those in most other developed countries.
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EDUCATION
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
- 03 July 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
- 16 June 2006
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
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EDUCATION
- Michael Furtado
- 22 May 2006
Michael Furtado on public money and private schools.
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AUSTRALIA
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
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