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Buch, Neville (2025). Free Thought. UU Underworld, January 2025, page seven
Buch, Neville (2025). Free Thought. UU Underworld, January 2025, page seven Dear folks, Happy New Year. Thought the attached might be of interest in relation to almost everything. Featured Image: A human brains with wings – free mind concept. [Oh, at the moment, cannot afford…
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Ontological Working Conclusions
Definitional phrasing copied and pasted from Wikipedia. “genuinely reflecting on, and responding to, the needs, demands, and expectations of teaching about teaching within the academy”. John Loughran[1] “The sociology of sociology is a topic of sociology that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.” (Wikipedia).…
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Merry Christmas. A Gift Article for you, A Christmas Carol
Merry Christmas A Gift Article for you, A Christmas Carol https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/12/the-most-hauntingand-most-inspiringmoment-in-a-christmas-carol/681178/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo2u7smJGxOZzac8V0IZ-hCg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Featured Image: Christmas gift for homeless man. A girl is giving a christmas gift to homeless man. ID 27486482 | Christmas Poverty © Pojoslaw | Dreamstime.com —
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Thoughts with a Professional History colleague on “Artificial Intelligence”
Dear friend, I have written on this topic in the last six-eight years as a MPHA. I work with a very senior educationist and a senior philosopher. All of us at the cutting edge of critical thinking in our separate global fields, but, and listen carefully, “the professional historians are not listening”. Australian…
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Stephanie M. Lee on “AI by omission”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thursday, December 19, 2024
AI by omission Researchers seem to agree that the people who helped write a paper should have their names attached to it. The same can’t be said about artificial intelligence, as our Stephanie M. Lee reports. Researchers are often flouting requirements to note their use of AI, suggests a preprint from Alex Glynn, a research literacy…
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John Wagner’s List of Negative Characteristics in Corporate Culture
From John Wagner’s List on LinkedIn. Corporate culture that needs to get canceled in 2025: * Micromanagement * Mandatory Return To Office * Glorifying Overworking * Expecting staff to be available 24/7 * Meetings that could have been an email * Unsympathetic Layoffs * Not disclosing salary ranges in job postings…
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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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Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond. 1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…
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Can federation models save universities?
PRETENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION MODELS This proposed federation model is an example of unimaginative and uncreative decision-makers who dress up a very old model and pretend that they are clever. These “politicians”, for such decision-makers are acting like politicians, are “clever”; too smartass clever for realistic comprehensive educational thinking. …
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The Employment Industry has become unaccountable to the Public
On Linked-In: Dear Hiring Managers, I would like to express my feelings regarding a recent interview experience that I found quite disappointing. I applied for a position about a month ago, and the job posting is still active. The marketing representative who conducted my interview started three minutes late and continued to…