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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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A right for paid work
Tax-free stipends, last year, for Ph.D. candidates, amounted to A$32,192, about $619 a week. There is concern that the amount is too close to the poverty line. Without payments for my professional work, which stems from a Ph.D. and two graduate diplomas, and a decade paid career, and a dozen paid contracts at a generous…
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Queensland Government’s inability to deal with histories
Dear friends, A message not from me, but, as one of the many Queensland public, I support. “Queensland Government’s inability to deal with histories.” Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed Cultural Amnesia In Queensland: A Bicentenary Missed …
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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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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…
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2024-12-06 Further Discussions on Cognition Histories and Sociology
https://www.facebook.com/events/601373408905942/ The Enormity of Facebook Technology Design Failure. But I finally beat it. Cognition is the “mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses” It is simply the act or process of knowing. Cognition histories is simply an account of…
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How Small is Australian Higher Education Sector for Domestics?
The average person would be shock when they learn how small the Australian Higher Education Sector is for citizens and residents of Australia, taking the international market out of the equation. Here is the data: HigherEducationStatisticsExportData.xls The main conclusions, working the smallest section of the population interest in being education:…
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Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of meritocracy. What do you think? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford…
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Malcolm is Correct, and the lesson applies to dealing with petit bullies
I have known in my time, petit bullies, pro-vice-chancellors, and even vice-chancellors with silence before public demand for change. Those executive officers who do have genuine conversations on the ‘demands for change’ are not bullies. The petit bullies are those executive officers who feel that they have no need to have the genuine conversation. …
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Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps
Dear friends and decision makers, Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps. This is John Hewson, the dry, for God’s Sake! The government policy, and policy for a long time, has been to create a culture-history warfare…