Why smart men should find a well-educated womanWe’re always hanging on for the next big breakthrough in health: a cure for cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia… But the next big breakthrough has already come, says Melissa Sweet: it’s education.
Education
Rudd: Howard wasted his boom time wealth
In PM Kevin Rudd’s latest op-ed, he reaffirms his idea that the Howard Government “squandered” their chance to reform, but assures us his government won’t do the same.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Julia
Education Minister Julia Gillard was under fire for overspending A$1.5 billion in the school buildings project and she came out guns blazing in parliament. For once, the voice of reason was Wilson Tuckey.
Criticism for school signs plan
The government is extracting every political mileage out of their school infrastructure program possible, with schools forced to place government advertising signs outside new buildings until 2011.
Poor lose out in stimulus changes
Schools have taken priority over public housing and the homeless with the latest changes to the economic stimulus package.
Blair’s education plans do a full revolution
The government’s education revolution looks identical to failed policies introduced in Britain by ex-PM Tony Blair. The micro-managing of schools does not work.
Political snippets: A+ for real estate
Richard Farmer explores how school league tables are affecting property values in the US. How is your local primary school going to affect your housing price? Also, tell us Australia’s best specialist journalists.
So what does Glyn Davis actually do?
Melbourne Uni’s Peter McPhee is retiring less than two years into his three year contract. Will vice-chancellor Glyn Davis resume at least some of McPhee’s duties? asks Erica Cervini.
Obama’s historic committment to science
Obama has announced he will ramp up research and development spending, create an advanced research agency for energy, and roll out new programs to improve science education in the US.
Education revolution brings stress and strain with the largesse
Schools across the country are suffering unexpected strain from their share of the government’s largesse.
US Education Dept pinches pennies
How are the US Education Dept cutting costs? Sharing printers and no more trips to Paris, to start with…
The fastest school spending spree in history doesn’t add up
It’s time for the national media to start asking questions about the execution of a program that the PM himself admits is the biggest national logistical challenge since World War 2, writes Stephen Mayne.
Government returns to the student union minefield
Voluntary student unionism is back in the news, writes Charles Richardson.
Scrymgour dumped as NT education minister
NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson has acted and dumped Marion Scrymgour from the key portfolio of Education, writes Bob Gosford.
Lowbottom High Diaries: The agony of the annual exam
How many different ways can you spell “soliloquy”? You would be surprised, writes Trevor Diogenes.
NT classrooms limit indigenous languages to 1 hour a day
The NT Minister for Education, Marion Scrymgour, recently announced that indigenous languages can not be used in NT classrooms, except for one hour a day in the afternoons, writes Samanti de Silva.
Faris: Henson and school principal should be investigated
Bill Henson makes a lot of money photographing n-ked or semi-n-ked pre-pubescent children. This is called Art by the Left glitterati. Most decent Australians would call it P-rnography, writes Peter Faris.
A long-serving Fairfax man bids a sad farewell
The redundancy process continues apace at Fairfax newspapers. For some it has not been a voluntary departure, writes Jonathan Green.
Teachers’ rights, a parable
Political correctness in the area of child protection has reached dizzying heights of absurdity in its desire to ensure that students are safe from sexual misconduct by teachers, writes Greg Barns.
GP survey reveals heavy reliance on drug reps
More than 70 per cent of Australian general practitioners regularly see drug company sales representatives, writes Ray Moynihan.
Questions for Jenny Macklin
Some questions concerning the proposed Federal law to fine parents of non-attending students.
Sport? What about student rights?
Student unions do not exist purely to insure sporting teams and fund clubs and societies, writes Eleri Harris.
Lowbottom High Diaries: An Ant’s story
Like ants we follow pheromonal trails through the labyrinthine corridors pausing only briefly to wave antennae and forelegs in recognition of fellow hivers, writes Trevor Diogenes.
$40 million: it’s how much each gold medal costs us
Each Olympic gold medal in the last 20 years has cost Australian taxpayers about 40 million, writes James Connor.
