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Beyond Binaries in Thought. The difference between the mid-century and the early 21 century
Dear friends, Yes, to life affirmation, irrespective of the colour we “choice to place“ on the canvas, and where we place the splash in our brief moment of time. As a general point among the thoughts of the global educated classes, here is the difference between the mid-century and the early 21 century: we are now…
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What am I worth in the Americanised Economy? What am I worth in the Australian Economy
Dear friends, The timing of this ABC story and Angus Deaton’s Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality (2023), could not be better for me: “But will his colleagues listen to him?” But will my colleagues listen to me? The timing is that I completed a…
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Corruption in The College. When will Vice-Chancellors Make a Bold Stand?
A scholarly colleague of mine wrote in a response to a recent story about the malpractice in academic publishing: Perhaps due to big incentive to write to get published, and not to innovate . Academia has increasingly become a bubble pre-occupied with tenure & commercial potential as a consequence of corporately funded…
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Institutional Prejudice: The Decision Maker
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The “Either-Or” Back-Fires: Australian Higher Education Can Not Do Creative Thinking…Yet
In Either/Or Søren Kierkegaard marks ” the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment.” Today we have, Either “to allow for universities which are teaching only“ Or universities must “… must conduct ‘world-standard’ research in at least half of the broad fields of education…
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The Public ALL Agreed. So, why don’t the political bastards “Get It”? : Communicative Action with Nick Carter
Last November the Productivity Commission recommend, in an intermit report, for the removal of the tax-free status of private schools. Let me be clear, this does not benefit public education. My prejudice is towards public education, but the prejudice of the Productivity Commission “boils my blood.” On both sides of the issue…
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The 2024 State of the Union Speech: Commentary from an Australian-American Relational Historian
The Copy of the Speech is supplied from Time (https://time.com/6898705/read-president-joe-bidens-2024-state-of-the-union-address-full-transcript/). I also listened to the speech twice, first from the MNBC streaming in Australia on a smart television, and secondly on the AP video from the Time site. I am an independent researcher, affiliated with The University of Queensland…
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Philosophically Ontology Logic Intersect Compatibility Education (POLICE)
“Police” might not be ‘a great’ acronym, but I referring to each person “policing” their own thought. What I am referring to, is not “self-censorship” in the way the libertarians discuss this concept of “self-censorship”. Libertarians get themselves in knots in thinking that “they”, as individuals, must not fail in the cognition of…
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Letter: Education ? All Types of Placement poverty in Australia
TO WHOM IT CONCERNS…who cares? Thanks for the information on what is being discussed in the communities and the media. Yes, we have two reasonable options here in policy: [below and to the ABC link] Free higher education for courses with large fieldwork programs. Or the industries of the industry partnerships in the fieldwork programs contribute significantly to the students’…
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Higher Education Intellectual Ethos 1989-2024: A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document
A Review of Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document (PDF Link) Conclusion: The challenge in correcting the views of the Australian Universities Accord Final Report Document is that the problems are what are missing; it is argument of negativity which in the social psychology of the country, fewer minds can grapple with the Document’s: …