EDUKATION REVIEW

NSW Premier Morris Iemma today sang the national anthem on live TV to act as a role model to other students who might soon be forced to sing their patriotic hearts out every morning (“Compulsory anthem to advance racial harmony”). The idea is to curb future racial outbreaks. And new subjects that will soon be […]

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This post’s headline might be a slight exaggeration, especially for someone who hates index fingers being constantly pointed at the big, bad and evil media. But in the case of reporting VSU protests, the media should be (at the very least) a suspect for causing the underlying assumption that student activism is dead.
The SBS […]

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Note these statistics by the International of International Education (IIE):
Britain, for example, has nearly 300,000 foreign students out of a total university student population of 2 million; Germany is next with nearly 250,000 students and Australia has nearly 200,000 students
It is interesting that Germany is on the list. Give various German publications a browse […]

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A very rare and remarkable resemblance between the domestic and international education landscape which has sparked homogenous reporting on education:
The AFR reported yesterday (“International uni enrolments slow” – no online version available) on the decline of international student enrolments. The US media reported on the exact same problem domestically, with George W. Bush raising […]

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What’s being taught in the classroom is a subject that always makes a striking come-back. This year, media reports covered the hackneyed relationship between religion and science and their respective theories on evolution, also known as the debate over “Intelligent Design”. While the feud between secularism and religion dates back to the 18th century […]

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Crossing the floor is not much of a political issue, but a moral dilemma – the main reason why the media gave Barnaby several slaps on the wrist. Floor-crossing isn’t merely about unorthodoxy in the political arena, but more explicitly, because parties demand a wealth of loyalty and respect to look like some perfectly unified […]

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Brendan might have gained a spot in modern political folklore, but so has Barnaby, the Senate’s rabble-rouser extraordinaire, who claims to have the ‘balance of power’ in the Senate.
He’s been called everything from political neophyte, raving recalcitrant, apprentice parliamentarian to accidental working-class hero, heavy price fighter, piss-and-wind rebel and even a Christmas turkey. Despite […]

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