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By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
As a parting gift to the nation, the Coalition majority in the Senate set up an inquiry into academic bias, at the instigation of the Young Liberals. It’s been discussed extensively before at LP on a number of occasions. The [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Education | Tagged academic bias, academic freedom, Coalition, course content, Culture Wars, education policy, higher education, Liberal Party, make australia fair, school education, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate inquiry, Senator Gavin Marshall, universities, university teaching, young liberals |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, Media, Security, Terrorism, War | Tagged academic freedom, ADFA, ASPI, Carl Ungerer, Culture Wars, David Lovell, gary maclennan, higher education, international relations, James Cook University, john Hookham, Mervyn Bendle, michael noonan, political science, postmodernism, Quadrant, research, research funding, scholarly ethics, security studies, terrorism studies, Terry Flew, Tony Burke, UNSW |
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