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Category: Educationalist History
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Propaganda and Executive University Rhetoric
‘We can’t ask to turn the clock back. The resources just aren’t there’ As he takes up the presidency of Universities UK, Manchester Met vice-chancellor Malcolm Press today speaks to Times Higher Education about the financial challenges institutions face – and he’s under no illusions. “The government won’t always be able to do everything we…
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Why Educative Culture cannot be dismissed by ‘antis’ and ‘cynics’: Donald Trump’s America
There are many good reasons one could argue, to the presumptuous ‘antis’ and ‘cynics’ — those who have dismissed the intellectual criticism, that their nonsense is actually against educational culture but it will fail as Donald Trump’s American Agenda. This reasoning from Chris Havergal, editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement, is one…
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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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“‘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…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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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…
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ANGER NOT SEEN BEFORE, THE
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. Sheffield, York, UEA and Hull are among the institutions to announce the need to make…
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Why are Vice-Chancellors putting up with it?
“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 universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced…
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How out-of-touch Queensland educational authorities are with the global thinking on assessing learning?
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 backward position. New Practices, New Perspectives To grade, or not to grade?…
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Not Monetary Arguments, But we do need to retire outdated cynical arguments
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 graduates receive is disappearing, and (3) the risk associated with a college investment has increased. Is college really not worth…