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By Mark Bahnisch on March 12, 2009
John Quiggin wrote an interesting op/ed in the Fin Review today, which I imagine will eventually surface on his blog. Quiggin picked up on recent remarks by Lindsay Tanner about discipline in the budget process. “Efficiency dividends” are much in [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Policy | Tagged bradley review, budget, fiscal policy, GFC, global financial crisis, higher education, ideology, John Quiggin, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lindsay Tanner, Policy, spending, tax cuts, taxation |
By Robert Merkel on December 18, 2008
The Bradley review of higher education came out yesterday. The timing is strange – why release this the day after the CPRS, in the leadup to Christmas – but a lot of the sentiments seem promising at first glance: massively [...]
Posted in Education | Tagged bradley review, higher education, universities |
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 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 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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008
In the spheres and circles in which Planet Janet moves, it’s “defend the Enlightenment” week. At first, I thought this was just the latest volley in the denialist wars, but now that we know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, cultural studies, Culture Wars, education wars, ethical relativism, gavin kitching, higher education, humanism, jacques derrida, john frow, laughing at the disabled, ludwig wittgenstein, michael noonan, michel foucault, paralysed by postmodernism, political science, postmodernism, scholarly standards, The Enlightenment, The West |
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