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By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2010
One of Julia Gillard’s lines about Tony Abbott’s cuts is that the Opposition, if elected, would abolish the Teach Next and Teach for Australia programmes. Yet, whether these two interlinked initiatives are in fact a good thing has not been [...]
Posted in Education, federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged education policy, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, rachael jacobs, schools, Teach for Australia, teach next, teachers, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on August 9, 2010
We’re seeing an interesting tactic from the Prime Minister – opening herself up to questioning on policy from those actually working in the area, and tonight, on Q&A, to anyone. (And I hope that the Q&A audience is more representative [...]
Posted in Education, federal election 2010, Media | Tagged abc news 24, baccalaureate, Bonner, Carindale, challis primary school, direct communication, early childhood, education policy, journalists, Julia Gillard, Kerry Rea, Kevin Rudd, marginal seat strategy, Media, myschool, NAPLAN, performance pay, political communication, press pack, Q&A, Qanda, schools policy, teachers |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 31, 2010
Over at Gatewatching, Jason Wilson references Andrew Elder’s very good question about the Australian Women’s Weekly being a graveyard for politicians, and asks another good one – given the magazine’s truly huge readership, were Tony Abbott’s comments ill advised? The [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Education, Federal Elections, Feminism, Media, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged andrew bolt, Andrew Elder, education policy, Federal Election 2010, Jason Wilson, Julia Gillard, Media, myschool, political media, Politics, public sphere, Rudd government, Sexuality, Sociology, Tony Abbott, Women's weekly |
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 December 2, 2008
Back when Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffle was announced, we had a request from Laura for a Chrissy Pyne watch. I can’t find the comment in question readily to link back to, but the LP collective memory is evidently elephantine… So, what’s [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged bills, Christopher Pyne, Education, education policy, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, national curriculum, parliament, private schools funding, Senate, transparency |
By Kim on October 5, 2008
A bit of a shoutout to all the teachers out there on the intertubes – we love youse all! Today is World Teachers’ Day. I’m sure there are very few of us who don’t remember teachers who made significant differences [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged ALP, education policy, education revolution, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Labor, performance pay, Rudd government, school education, schools policy, teachers, teachers unions, teaching, World Teachers' Day |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
This time last year, we were all feverishly anticipating the calling of the federal election, which was less than a fortnight away. Now, courtesy of the quarterly Newspoll geographical and demographic analysis we can track where and with whom the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Education, Federal Elections, Policy, Polls, Water | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, carbon pollution reduction scheme, Climate change, climate change policy, COAG, coast to coast labor, Colin Barnett, education policy, education revolution, emissions trading, Federal election 2007, judith brett, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Lindsay Tanner, Murray-Darling, Newspoll, pensions, Polls, psephological analysis, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, Rudd government, schools, South Australia, tax policy, WA election 2008, Wayne Swan, Western Australia |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/20070801_jinnan_texting.jpg" align=left Hot on the heels of lexicographer Erin McKean’s advice that if it feels wordish, use it, here comes some more legitimation for linguistic innovation. The well known author and linguist, David Crystal, has published a new book [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Language, Sociology, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, David Crystal, education policy, education wars, Language, linguistics, literacy, sms speak, Sociology, sociology of culture, spelling, spelling variants, text messages, texting, txtng, Writings |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
As Luke Slattery observes, a significant number of universities are moving to emulate either the whole of or aspects of the Melbourne Model – generalist undergraduate degrees followed by vocational postgraduate degrees. UWA and Macquarie are the latest off the [...]
Posted in Education, Sociology | Tagged ACU, ALP, brendan nelson, Education, education policy, Griffith University, higher ed, higher education, higher education policy, innovation review, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kim Carr, Labor, Luke Slattery, Macquarie University, Melbourne model, QUT, Rudd government, Stephen Schwartz, student income support, universities, university funding, university teaching, UQ, UWA, UWS, venturousaustralia |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. [...]
Posted in Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anna Clark, Culture Wars, education policy, history curriculum, History wars, howard government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, kevin donnelly, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Manning Clark, national curriculum, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, stuart macintyre |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
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