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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Policy'
‘Give me the child and I’ll give you the man’
January 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Achtung, Achtung! Student Protestism Ain’t Dead!
January 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
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 […]
Tags: Student Activism · International · Policy
The Foreign Student Phenomenon
January 9th, 2006 · Comments Off
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 […]
Tags: International · Policy
Education: Right or Privilege?
December 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off
Andrew Norton at Catallaxy makes an interesting addition to the debate (rendered scandal) of admitting students with lower entry cut-offs on the condition of paying full fees, as discussed in my previous post.
He believes that “…. it is not clear that admitting students on low marks is necessarily in their interests,” at the same […]
Tags: Policy
