Posted in higher ed on Feb 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Just a couple of days after I was lamenting with a friend the death of free university education since the heady post-Whitlam days, and the subsequent changes to campus life, along comes the ‘uni chief’ today in the AGE, arguing that universities should be given the power to set higher student fees, ostensibly to help [...]
Posted in higher ed on Jan 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
Just as I feared, the reminders are coming thick and fast, but now I’m almost looking forward to getting back to work and school and over the beautiful unreality of holiday life!
Posted in higher ed on Jan 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
Examples below of me taking my own advice about integrating myself into summer. I just had 10 days in the Marlborough Sounds in NZ, followed by a few days camping at the Prom. Both were great. Now I’m dreading that first ‘Back to School’ sale sign any day now. And I logged into to my [...]
Posted in education-news, higher ed, politics on Sep 19th, 2007 No Comments »
From the AGE today:
AUSTRALIA was the only developed country to cut public spending on tertiary education in the decade to 2004, according to a new world comparison.
The funding reduction — down 4 per cent compared with an average OECD rise of 49 per cent — resulted in private spending on higher education, including students’ tuition [...]
Posted in higher ed on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Okay, so now I’m re-posting from old postings, but I was thinking about watching the space shuttle on my laptop computer again and how amazing that actually is.
I blogged just that sentiment a couple of years ago but it was on the old blog (I didn’t know about migrating posts over in those days) so [...]
Posted in curriculum, education-news, higher ed on Apr 1st, 2007 No Comments »
This week the focus was Australian literature, and what schools should be doing about it. A Sydney seminar was responding to Rosemary Neill’s article in the Weekend Australian late last year called, ‘Lost for Words’, which argued that university undergraduates were much less interested in studying Australian writing than in the past.
Various theories emerged. Of [...]
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