Captains of Industry
Here’s a nice little out-of-touch conversation, between three private schoolboys on a Sydney North Shore train. Schoolboy 1: I feel sorry for the suckers in state schools. Schoolboy 2: Their parents...
View ArticleAustralia 2020 News, 14 March 2008
Summit deputy chairman Professor Glyn Davis reckons Australia’s universities should be run like the American higher education system. Professor Davis will argue in a speech today that America’s higher...
View ArticleDo we really care about our kids?
Despite all the rhetoric about “protecting our children” and “children are the future”, our governments seem determined to prevent them preparing for the real future. Take NSW schools minister Verity...
View ArticleLinks for 29 January 2009 through 30 January 2009
Stilgherrian’s links for 29 January 2009 through 30 January 2009, gathered by a poisonous frog: Study challenges AGs on predator danger | CNET News: A new study from the Center for Safe and Responsible...
View ArticleLinks for 22 May 2009 to 27 May 2009
Here are the web links I’ve found for 22 May 2009 to 27 May 2009, posted automatically. The Age of the Essay | Paul Graham: This essay dates from 2004, but it’s still valid. The essay, the kind that’s...
View ArticleThe Poverty Web
This is Juma Hassan lila Kalibu, secretary of Kilimani [see update below] village in Zanzibar, showing off the village school’s new computer room. As you can see, it has no computers. Or electricity....
View ArticleLinks for 16 August 2009 through 26 August 2009
Stilgherrian’s links for 16 August 2009 through 26 August 2009: Academic Earth: “Video lectures from the world’s top scholars”, it says. Provided they’re American. The universities included so far are...
View ArticleLinks for 22 October 2009 through 27 October 2009
Stilgherrian’s links for 22 October 2009 through 27 October 2009, published after far too long a break. I really, really do need to work out a better way of doing this… Nature Child | San Juan...
View Article50 to 50 #6: Myponga Primary School
[This post is part of the series 50 to 50, fifty posts in the lead-up to my 50th birthday next weekend. Originally intended to be one per day, with the final one on the birthday itself, it's been...
View ArticleAustralia’s Budget 2013 keeps us stuck in the past
[As it turns out, my planned Budget commentary for Crikey didn't happen. I got up early in San Jose, read the budget papers and made notes, but then my as-yet-unwritten article got spiked. This is a...
View ArticleThe 9pm Shut Up It’s Called Logic
Australia has chosen its face for Eurovision 2015, and it needs a shave. Christopher Pyne explains science. And Malcolm Turnbull explains reality. In this podcast, there’s talk of logic, leadership,...
View ArticleTalking the death of handwriting on ABC 891 Adelaide
“How relevant is handwriting in 2015, when people are increasingly communicating via text messages, via email, via tweets, Facebook updates, those sort things?”, asked ABC 891 Adelaide presenter...
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