A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing: Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has...
Neville Buch
Institutional Prejudice: The Decision Maker
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Rights and Fairness: Response to the David Pindar Article
David Pindar writes a blog on a Substack site, called, "Aargh! (Age-activated rage)." This blog articles are a good mixture of 'conservative' and 'progressive' opinions. Recently, I thought his regular piece, "Happy Friday #22", was particularly...
The “Either-Or” Back-Fires: Australian Higher Education Can Not Do Creative Thinking…Yet
In Either/Or Søren Kierkegaard marks " the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment." Today we have, Either "to allow for universities which are teaching only" Or universities...
The Public ALL Agreed. So, why don’t the political bastards “Get It”? : Communicative Action with Nick Carter
Last November the Productivity Commission recommend, in an intermit report, for the removal of the tax-free status of private schools. Let me be clear, this does not benefit public education. My prejudice is towards public education, but the prejudice of the...
The 2024 State of the Union Speech: Commentary from an Australian-American Relational Historian
The Copy of the Speech is supplied from Time (https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/). I also listened to the speech twice,...
Today’s Cultural Madness: It will take every educated persons to boldly stand up and stop the madness
Featured Message Image: Marketoonist order number - 24304. Paid. The abstract subtle thinking seeping into our suburban homes. This morning's news was that very young infants were losing word power from over-exposure to tablets during...
Philosophically Ontology Logic Intersect Compatibility Education (POLICE)
“Police” might not be ‘a great’ acronym, but I referring to each person “policing” their own thought. What I am referring to, is not “self-censorship” in the way the libertarians discuss this concept of “self-censorship”. Libertarians get themselves in...
Letter: Education ? All Types of Placement poverty in Australia
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS...who cares? Thanks for the information on what is being discussed in the communities and the media. Yes, we have two reasonable options here in policy: [below and to the ABC link] Free higher education for courses with...