Tim Blair reports on Yvonne Ridley – the British journalist who converted to Islam after being kidnapped by the Taliban – who has won a case for unfair dismissal against the Islam News Channel. Earlier in the year she won nearly £14,000 in damages after winning a four-year unfair dismissal case against Arabic TV station al-Jazeera. She now works for Iranian-based PressTV. Read more »
Competition has taught schools a golden rule of business: your reputation is enhanced if you have greater control over the inputs – in this case, students. Chris Bonnor looks at what that means in large country towns
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Off to the opening of The World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference: Education today. It starts in Melbourne with a Traditional Welcome to Country Ceremony, Sunday December 7 2008 at the Aborigines Advancement League 2 Watt Street, Thornbury. 10am – 7.30pm. Read more »
Back when Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffle was announced, we had a request from Laura for a Chrissy Pyne watch. I can’t find the comment in question readily to link back to, but the LP collective memory is evidently elephantine… So, what’s young Christopher been up to? Read more »
The Bradley review of higher education came out yesterday. The timing is strange - why release this the day after the CPRS, in the leadup to Christmas - but a lot of the sentiments seem promising at first glance: massively increased participation in higher education, a focus on enrolling students from disadvantaged backgrounds, attacking the looming academic shortage in crucial disciplines. Read more »
Qinghua Pei is being investigated by ICAC for allegedly trying to bribe a Year 5 teacher to write a favourable report on his son, and improve the boy’s prospects of getting into a selective high school.
What is the appropriate reaction to this? Here are a few to choose from: Read more »
Yesterday, after a whirlwind six week campaign, Melbourne Uni and the National Academy of Music put out a statement the upshot of which is that the full 2009 program that the Academy had planned to run will now be run, with Brett Dean as Artistic Director, staying in its existing location, key staff remaining the same, and places to be offered to existing students. A new independent board will be appointed with a view to determining the Academy's long-term programming. Read more »
When John Howard’s government announced funding for school chaplains in public schools, then Education Minister Julie Bishop (remember her?) claimed it was all about instilling “values” in the kiddies. Apparently, the fruits of the program have exceeded expectations: Read more »
The Government is in damage control over the ill-advised decision to close the Australian National Academy of Music, and the Prime Minister must immediately step in to impose at least a 12 month moratorium on the decision, the Australian Greens said today.
In answering a question from Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Arts Spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, Senator Wong once again denigrated the Academy by telling the students and staff present in the gallery that the world-class institution needed to be "revitalised". Read more »
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