Jessica Gavora, in The Atlantic (July 25, 2024, 7:31 AM ET) wrote: I thought of Dad last week, when the Republican vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, said something that profoundly misjudged and disrespected his memory. “America is not...
"Between 2010 and 2019, UK universities paid more than £1bn in journal subscriptions and other publishing charges. More than 90% of these fees went to the big five commercial publishers (UCL and Manchester shelled out over £4m each). It’s worth remembering that the...
"In red states there is a movement to dumb the public. It starts in the educational realm where critical thinking is not simply not taught, it is actively discouraged. If history teach the rest of us that it can repeat itself then citizens of red states are not...
I cannot afford to purchase the book, but it has been saying exactly the concerns I have raised about how out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning. The reactionary thinkers had taken over and put us in a...
Another friend of mine pointed out the many policy overreaches made and that "Learning has been devalued by those in charge for decades. e.g. university as just the acquisition of job tickets. And assignments that reward end products not learning." My friend, who I...
A friend of mine, a person who I consider one of Queensland’s top educators in science, pointed out that, “Most academics are unaware that there are AI designed to write undetected, it's not just chat get.” [joke on ChatGPT; to spell it out for the highly paid fools,...
Jack Grove, Academics despair as ChatGPT-written essays swamp marking season, The Times Higher Education Supplement, June 17, 2024 Another reason to employ or contract me, a human being. Academics...
Even though I do not put much weight on the numbers in my scholarship, The University of Queensland keeps wanting to use the numbers in its public relations exercises, and dismisses that something really bad has happened in Queensland education in the last 30 years....
Dear VC, You have been completely misguided by your conservative advisors, if what is being said is to ignore the activists. See the THE article below. I and the other critical thinkers are at the cutting-edge of our fields and global knowledge. The difference between...