Blog 24 - Dr Neville Buch

George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance; Against What is Wrong

George Washington, President of George Mason University (GMU) has Defiance, taking a stand against what is wrong. From The Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 August 2025: GMU President Refuses to Apologize for Diversity Efforts, Lawyer Calls Ed. Dept. Claims ‘Absurd’ by Katherine Mangan and Jasper Smith. In a 10-page letter,…
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Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.

Andrew James Brown provides Open Education and an introduction to Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”. I recommend listen to the YouTube video. Or read the transcription of Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro [今岡信一良] (1881-1988). School Education and Religion (2) [1956] Shōwa 31 [1956] in…
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Future of the History Discipline and History Careers Outside Universities

Letter (email) from Stuart Forbes Macintyre, to Dr Neville Buch, 20 May 2017 at 16:07: We know from the work done on public engagement in history (first in the US and then by Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton at UTS) that studying history is a relatively minor form of participation and that…
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Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking

We have all experience it: Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking. Here is a number which is meaningless: 3.6 millions are on Centrelink payments. Phillips and Narayanan (2021) of the ANU puts it more meaningful: The Australian social security system spends around $120 billion dollars in cash transfers…
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The new Brisbane Governance is stupid | Right solution for the wrong problem

I must thank, in person, “Just a silly Aussie that makes videos about urbanism in Switzerland and other places,” of the Streets and Scars of City Past. It is the technical evidence in the scholarship of transportation which demonstrates the technical evidence in the scholarship of cognition histories and sociology. Indeed, towards the…
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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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An Open Letter for Equity

By Dr Neville Buch, the opinions expressed are the author’s own On 24 July 2025, an “Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education” was produced by a distinguished group of individuals, “with a range of political beliefs whose contributions to Australian life owe significantly to our Bachelor of…
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Born Again: Persons and Movements (1974-2025)

Here is a panel of images of, technically, the same person, but also persons, plural, over time. On the left is me at the age of 13 years, on the right is me at age of 15 years. In the middle is me now. On the left is 1974 and on the right is 1976.…
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Changing the Minds of University Marketers

A Post at UQ Change Makers: Early this morning I had a conversation with an old undergraduate graduate on his need to retire the nostalgia and to think about the past and present with more intelligence (double meaning). It got me thinking about the historical ideas which have been swirling…
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A “Radical Program” has Spiraled Back with No Apology From The Institution That Had Attacked the Program in the 1970s.

All high praise should be made for Balmoral State High School for a program with very good principles of education. However, those principles were shut down by the Queensland Government when the same type of programs were introduced before. This Balmoral State High School program was the approach…
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