Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Concepts in Educationalist Thought Series
-
Economic Error in Australian International Student Market
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 profiting off international students because they are spending so…
-
Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
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’ career job, as a…
-
Can federation models save universities?
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 acting like politicians, are “clever”; too smartass clever for realistic comprehensive educational thinking. …
-
2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology
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, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing. Cognition histories is simply an account of…
-
Walter Johnson – On Racial Capitalism
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 in his book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, published in…
-
Lebensphilosophie in Queensland, 1 December 2024.
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 Partnerships Ltd. He had previously worked as an Adjunct Professor, Centre for…
-
New VCs and the State of Affairs at and in Australian Universities
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. New generation of educationalist vice-chancellors urges change. As more…
-
How Small is Australian Higher Education Sector for Domestics?
The average person would be shock when they learn how small the Australian Higher Education Sector is for citizens and residents of Australia, taking the international market out of the equation. Here is the data: HigherEducationStatisticsExportData.xls The main conclusions, working the smallest section of the population interest in being education:…
-
To the new Queensland Minister for Education and the Arts
To the Minister for Education and the Arts, Queensland Dear Friends, (letter to Minister below) Why do you not understand? If you didn’t? And if you did, why not say something significant about education? The Lesson: “I am glad you’re in the class, I am glad you are learning, a…
-
Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of meritocracy. What do you think? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford…