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Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
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An Open Letter for Equity
By Dr Neville Buch, the opinions expressed are the author’s own On 24 July 2025, an “Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education” was produced by a distinguished group of individuals, “with a range of political beliefs whose contributions to Australian life owe significantly to our Bachelor of…
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A “Radical Program” has Spiraled Back with No Apology From The Institution That Had Attacked the Program in the 1970s.
All high praise should be made for Balmoral State High School for a program with very good principles of education. However, those principles were shut down by the Queensland Government when the same type of programs were introduced before. This Balmoral State High School program was the approach…
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Australian Universities Afraid of Open Communication and Intelligent Conversation
I must apologise for posting in what would seem a simple matter of emailing the universities and asking them to stop blocking me in my legitimate, academic communications. However, you have the ‘chicken-and-egg’ problem. In order to let the authorities know they have either made a mistake or a deliberate unjust action (with no justifiable…
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Where it started locally (Queensland): Ottoline Leyser, ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’
Jack Grove, Ottoline Leyser: ‘We are destroying the diversity in our university system’, Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), June 26, 2025. Comment: The THE article is in the UK natural science context, but where it began locally, for Australian humanities research, was when The University of Queensland got rid of boutique courses in…
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The Fit of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility
This research task is a more comprehensive version from a set of previous publication. It is an argument on how ideologies of Materialism, Spiritualism, and Accurate Compatibility can actually come together in opposition to hard materialism, vague spiritualism, and centralism inaccuracy. Hard materialism rides too heavily on disposition which is the relationship of ‘body’ and…
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TASA Statement on the Targeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities
Please read the TASA Statement on the Targeting of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 20 June 2025. It very much matters. TASA STATEMENT
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Impact Rankings 2025: results announced, Times Higher Education Supplement (THE)
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE) has announced its Impact Rankings 2025 results, and it is rather surprising. In total, Asian universities occupy 22 of the top 50 spots in the overall ranking (up from 12 last year) – compared with 11 from Australasia, nine from Europe, eight from North America, and…
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Introduction to the Sociology of Education: Education, social stability & social change. University of Sydney
Education, social stability & social change. University of Sydney. Durkheim, Parsons and Bowles & Gintis on education. The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Sociology of Education Thematic Group Objectives To network researchers interested in the sociology of education and stimulate debate and discussion To pursue opportunities for…
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MICE Proposed Principles
This article is a discussion space in deciding the statements which could be the MICE Principles: Management Institute for Contributory Economy. The draft discussion article comes from Dr Neville Buch’s interpretation of the message from Dr Michael Macklin in 1989 to the Australian Senate. (Video and Another Extract from Senator Macklin): …
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“‘Mind-boggling stupidity’”
I have been saying the key primary message for the last decade, and more, for what Rick Morton has detailed on the Nous Group model, in The Saturday Paper, June 14 – 20, 2025 | No. 554, with the title, “‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities”. And it is stupidity: “When…