By Robert Merkel on February 21, 2011
An interesting counterpoint to the educational traditionalists – some data which suggests that the relative educational performance of Australian school students is going up:
Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Brookings Institute, Education, OECD, PISA |
By Kim on August 3, 2010
The Prime Minister launched her “Let Julia Be Julia” gambit on Sunday, accompanied by a proclamation that one of her key second term goals is to give schools autonomy – “Principal power”. According to an article in the Fin Review [...]
Posted in Education, federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged autonomous schools, Education, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, principal power, real julia, school education, schools |
By Kim on July 21, 2010
For an explanation of why I’m writing these posts, see last night’s entry. So, from the vantage point of commercial news, tonight was all about the kids. (And, again, the election was bumped into second spot, this time by a [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Media | Tagged Bowman, Channel Nine, coorpooroo, Education, Federal Election 2010, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Media, Policy, schools, tax |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 17, 2010
The Economist speculated this week that the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government in the UK might come to be seen as “government by the southern rich for the southern rich”. Skepticlawyer has an interesting post at her eponymous blog, riffing off [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, History, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged British election 2010, Cambridge, comprehensive education, David Cameron, Education, elitism, Eton Winchester, France, grammar schools, Great Britain, Harold Wilson, income inequality, Labour party, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Oxford, private schools, public schools, republicanism, revolution, social class, social mobility, Sociology, status, Tony Blair, uk |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2010
The tragic murder of Nitin Garg has revived debate about violence against Indian students in Australia, spilling over into a range of statements at Ministerial level in both countries. I think there is no doubt that hate crimes occur in [...]
Posted in Crime, International, Melbourne, Politics | Tagged bilateral relationship, criminology, Education, Foreign policy, hate crimes, Indian students, international students, Melbourne, Nitin Garg, racism, universities, violence |
By Phil on November 25, 2009
Andrew Clennell in today’s Sydney Morning Herald points us to an interesting trial mooted by NSW Premier, Nathan Rees. Ethics classes will be introduced in NSW schools, offering an alternative to religious studies for the first time in 100 years, [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, NSW Government, Policy | Tagged Andrew Clennell, Education, Ethics, nathan rees, new south wales, NSW, Religion, smh, St James Ethics Centre |
By Guest Poster on December 9, 2008
[Cross-posted at GreensBlog] So what just happened with the National Academy of Music? Tim Hollo – Advisor to Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne Yesterday, after a whirlwind six week campaign, Melbourne Uni and the National Academy of Music put out [...]
Posted in Music, Policy | Tagged AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Greens, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, Brett Dean, Christine Milne, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, Terry Moran, The Greens, training |
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 Mark Bahnisch on November 27, 2008
There’s been a bit of discussion about Arts Minister Peter Garrett’s defunding of the Australian National Academy of Music on another thread, so I think it probably warrants a post of its own. Long time observers of arts and cultural [...]
Posted in Culture, Education, Government, Music, Policy | Tagged 2020 summit, AIMP, ANAM, arts policy, Australian Institute of Music Performance, Australian National Academy of Music, classical music, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, defunding, Education, Glyn Davis, Melbourne University, Michael Danby, Music, Peter Garrett, training |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 24, 2008
Well, having opened a thread that perhaps proves that Ute Man is still out there but not actually supporting Emo Man, it behoves me, I guess, to have a bit of a say about the tenure of the Rudd government [...]
Posted in Government, Howardia, Policy, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, anniversary, Climate change, economic management, economic policy, Education, election day, Emissions trading scheme, first anniversary, first term, Health, infrastructure, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Paul Keating, Policy, punditariat, Rudd government, service delivery, WorkChoices |
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 |
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