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Category: Blog
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It is Not Only Me Saying It: The Now-Open Dirty (corrupt) Secret of National-State and University Governance
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-gutting-of-the-liberal-arts?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_9519245_nl_Academe-Today_date_20240409&cid=at&sra=true READ!!!! THINK!!!! ACT!!!! David C.K. Curry, The Gutting of the Liberal Arts, The Chronicle of Higher Education, APRIL 8, 2024 Let me spell this out to the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Government Ministers, and all elected representative officials at the three level of governments, and the manipulative-thinking bureaucrats,…
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What it is Costing Me for What a Higher Education Institution Ought to Be Paying Me
My direct business costs, as a history consultant in Queensland, is a little over $5,000 over six months, but my living costs, being able to do the work of a history consultant, is over three-time that amount. Many of the cost items for the budget are indirect business costs, such as vehicle and transport costs.…
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2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch. Understanding Differences and Perspective
2024-04-05 RGSQ Reply to Dr Buch ******* 6 April 2024 Dr Neville Buch 18 Callendar Street Sunnybank Hills Q 4109 [email protected] Dear Dr Buch Thank you for providing feedback on the forum, A Housing Crisis – Queensland Perspectives, organized by our Society and the University of Queensland School of…
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Why do we put up with it?
Why do we put up with it? Cultural misbehaviour sells the media story, and demonstrates what I have long said about the educational unintelligence of the Australian media. …of course, I am not saying there are not excellent journalists and brilliant media pieces. But without the scholarship in the public marketplace…
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Educational Placement Poverty and Generations
In the 2021 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) paper, Lived higher education policy and grand generational narratives at the University of Melbourne 2005-2008: An educational critique of Karl Mannheim and ‘The Problem of Generations’, I had stated that: …
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BACK-UP. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ATTACK. Re: Education ? Placement poverty in Australia (Case Ref: LW62300)
Dear …everyone thinking in Australia, [This post reproduces an email to the Australian public persons. It was the second email sent. The system is attempting to destroy the capacity for the information technology as in email workhorses to handle large and critical thinking as substantial text; fightback to the dumbing-down of the commercial world ! swearword…
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Why modernist/postmodernist stoicism is meaning to do great harm?
“But the dispiriting thing about contemporary Stoicism is how slippery it has become, toothless practically to the point of meaninglessness…all religions have reform versions and adherents who push against orthodoxy. But cafeteria Stoicism has become diluted into the language of go-get-’em motivational speech… Moreover, modern Stoicism drifts toward hypermasculine patter that at…
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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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Peekaboo!
Since I am suffering in the silence to my humanities-social science messaging, I will go to the message of the Philosophy of Science, from Philip R. Hall. Phil Hall is Wissenshschaftlicher, and editor at arsnotoria.com Peekaboo! + Complex systems are characterised by emergence. What this means is that…