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...
THE = The Times Higher Education Supplement ‘ANGER NOT SEEN BEFORE’ The UK’s embattled universities have embarked on yet another round of cost-cutting, Tom Williams reports, with departments and projects once assumed to be off limits now facing the chop....
"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...
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...
Questions regarding the value of a college education have spiked recently, highlighted by high-profile media coverage. Beyond the hype, three substantive attacks have been levied: (1) the college wage premium is illusory, (2) the lifetime wealth premium that college...
I read this article in The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), and I was left mystified as to the silence of our decision-makers, as the same scenario rolled out in Australia, and locally, since 1992. Let's check and read the statements of the article. The...
When I researched for an image, for this blog, I found this one below, one of three images, in my paid account provided for my business, which came up with the three results with the research phrase, "capture public relations". This image is an excellent illustration...
A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland, published by Humanist Australia Inc. on the Medium platform. Follow the link: https://medium.com/australian-humanist/a-critical-review-of-2022-theos-annual-lecture-by-tom-holland-d4268e11e7c0