AI Overview: "Irretractable" means something that cannot be taken back, reversed, or retracted. It's the opposite of "retractable". Essentially, if something is irretractable, it's final and cannot be undone. In an email group discussion,...
Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
Why Aren’t Students Reading? From the Chronicle
Graham Vyse, Why Aren’t Students Reading? The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 10, 2025. It’s hard to get today’s college students to read. Many are unable — or unwilling — to do it, especially if they’re assigned longer texts....
Australian Universities: The Australia Institute Report
The Australia Institute Media Release Australian universities slash costs, staff and courses, while lavishing hundreds of millions on themselves April 30, 2025 Economics Law, Society & Culture Australia’s universities spend hundreds of...
CHASS Election Statement: what makes us human
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has just released its 2025 Federal Election Statement, urging Australia’s next government to strengthen national capabilities in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). HASS plays...
Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. ...
Substantial Fairness in Semantics and Strategies for the Level Playing Field
"The State needs to act as a level playing field, treating all substantive belief systems fairly". Dr Neil Peach’s Question. First, to recap what the Level Playing Field is: ***** Semantics and...
The New Carnegie classifications
The New Carnegie classifications: https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/saec/ This is the new system for American Universities: From The Chronicle: New Carnegie Classification Aims to Shake Up How Higher Ed...
Not to Duck and Cover
From the Daily Briefing of The Chronicle of Higher Education: Duck-and-cover is over. Colleges close ranks More than a week after Harvard University galvanized higher ed by rejecting demands from the Trump administration, the sector continues to emerge...
Changeling Leadership
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. According to folklore, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling...