Well, this was unexpected. PM Acknowledgement Letter A letter from the Prime Minister of Australia, and, although not personally but through his Office, it is the first time I have had an acknowledgment from the highest office in our beloved country; a...
“Oxford University’s Professor of Higher Education Simon Marginson said he disliked the Times rankings because there was no rationale for the mix and ratio of the weightings. Meanwhile, he said survey responses from academics were subjective and often unduly amplified...
Dear University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith Vice-Chancellors, From the RMIT VC, Professor Alec Cameron: "Higher education and vocational education can work together to support the myriad journeys through learning and work, giving...
Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have...
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from...
My response to the LinkedIn campaign, “How do you combine research and teaching in higher education?”, “Powered by AI and the LinkedIn community”. I combine research and teaching in higher education by being personal. And it seems as if that is difficult...
A comment on the state of intelligence in the global corporate world, here in Australia and elsewhere. Apologizes to the poets, including myself. The point is that the corporates have no poetic sensibility nor interest in the insights of poetry. We Know What We...
Dear Professor Evans, Many thanks for acknowledging my story. The only reason to share it with you is that there are no positions for a person of my high caliber. Looking, this morning, in the 'Jobs at Griffith' and filtering for the School of...
The "The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and...