Dear friend, I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully,...
AI by omission Researchers seem to agree that the people who helped write a paper should have their names attached to it. The same can’t be said about artificial intelligence, as our Stephanie M. Lee reports. Researchers are often flouting requirements to note...
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. - Adlai Stevenson MARGIN OF ERROR. From THE, 19 December 2024 Despite the expensive fees that they pay, Australian universities are barely...
The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond. 1997. I started my first 'permanent'...
PRETENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION MODELS This proposed federation model is an example of unimaginative and uncreative decision-makers who dress up a very old model and pretend that they are clever. These “politicians”, for such decision-makers are...
https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/ The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it. Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought,...
Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson...
Update Preface. Dr Michael Macklin is a former Dean at the University of New England: the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science from 2002 to 2007, and Macklin also represented the University as the Director, UNE...
A brilliant comment (below) from a dear friend and an artist on the State of Affairs at and in Australian Universities. Full marks for the accuracy and intelligence in speaking to the stupidity of Australian politicians and the conformist VCs. ...