Stuart Middleton compares apples with Apples – and he likes both. When I started school the teacher had a view that we should be taught to read and write. Putting aside reading for the moment, we certainly got on with ...

2012 is racing towards us, and it’s bringing a truckload of questions with it, writes Stephen Parker. It has been said that a market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. We are ...

TAFE needs immediate and significant support to develop the teaching capability required to realise a high-skills economy. And the latest teaching qualification doesn’t fit the bill, writes Pat Forward. The Australian VET system is about to see yet another version ...

Educators love to talk about what they do, but the world becomes a lot more interesting without the trappings of work identity, writes Stuart Middleton. I recently undertook a program along with a group of people working at a range ...

Stark comparisons can be drawn between the government’s attitude to the mining industry and international education, writes Paul Rodan. Those in the international education sector cannot have missed the obvious contrast between their treatment by government and that given to ...

Australian outbound mobility is much higher than some would have us believe, writes Stephen Connelly. The article ‘Mobility a one way street’ (CR, 02.08.10) seriously under reports the number of Australian students undertaking international study experiences. The real story is ...

Indigenous affairs have moved on in Australia, but Stuart Middleton says there’s a strange undercurrent. I have been in Australia a bit lately - conferences and a holiday. The issue of relations between governments and indigenous peoples has been not ...

Universities can play a key role in balancing the short-term interest and obfuscation that politicians in the climate change debate, writes Joseph Gora. The recent announcement of the ALP’s climate change policy by Prime Minister Julia Gillard was greeted with ...

Universities are the breeding ground for ideas. Think tanks are the perfect way to get them mobilized, writes Bruce Muirhead. The term think tank is a particularly vivid paradox. Thinking is intangible. Lightweight. The human brain is said to have ...

A recent paper on Australia’s research workforce offers a genuinely creative opportunity to rethink the ideal research worker, writes Sharon Bell. The federal government’s discussion paper ‘Meeting Australia’s research workforce needs: A consultation paper to inform the development of the ...