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Category: Educationalist History
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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Not Monetary Arguments, But we do need to retire outdated cynical arguments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…
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THE’s Post-92 contract ‘at risk’ in wave of university cost-cutting: And in Australia and locally?
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 Australian context in most ways mirror that in the United…
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Communication, Critical Thinking, Education, and Research: A Society Captured in the ‘PR’ Outlook
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 of the problem-at-hand. Featured Image: Public Relations campaign…
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HA Inc. Medium Publication. A Critical Review of 2022 Theos Annual Lecture by Tom Holland
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
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Regarding Our Education Systems Needing Thinking in Contemporaneous Compatibilist Epistemology
The 2022 Australian and New Zealand History of Education (ANZHES) Conference From selections of the ANZHES Newsletter December 2022, with comments. This blog article — call it what you like — “academic”, “populist”, “community”, any political semantics, to ignore it, Minister of Education, cannot be so dismissed. The communities demand an answer on the state…