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Education, elitism and meritocracy

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 | 318 Responses

Torquemada in Lycra

By Kim on February 22, 2010

Tony Abbott, we’re told, is “real”. Able to mix with the battlers (just like Joe Hockey, another product of the North Shore Jesuit Fathers, and just like yet another, Barnaby Joyce, the accountant in the Akubra), he’s “authentic”. Kevin Rudd [...]

Posted in Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged authenticity, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Coalition, conservatism, Federal Election 2010, Geoffrey Barker, George W. Bush, ideology, Jesuit Fathers, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, North Shore, Policy, private schools, spin, symbolism, Tony Abbott | 32 Responses

(Private) education revolution?

By Kim on September 3, 2008

Although the AEU has been dismissed as one of the dreaded teachers’ unions by Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd, some others have actually been looking at the evidence in the evidence-free policy of the Kevin Rudd “education revolution” narrative. And [...]

Posted in Education | Tagged AEU, ALP, Chris Bonnor, education research, education revolution, evidence based policy, Jim McMorrow, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, National Press Club address, political narrative, private schools, public schools, Rudd government, school education, school funding, schooling, schools transparency, teacher bashing, teacher quality, teachers unions, transparent school information | 115 Responses

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