Education
In this La Trobe University Ideas and Society session, Professor John Dewar, vice-chancellor of La Trobe and chair of the Federal Ministerial Universities’ Legislation & Financing Working Group, looks at the prospects for the university in Australia. He then joins La Trobe’s chancellor Adrienne Clarke and
Former Aboriginal Affairs minister Fred Chaney delivered the John Button Oration on Indigenous policy at the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival.
Author Brigid Delaney, actor and writer Brendan Cowell, Headmaster of Oxley College Michael Parker, and psychologist and author Steve Biddulph talk about youth and violence. Chaired by Paola Totaro.
Recently The Monthly published online a collection of excerpts from real history essays by undergraduate university students. ‘A Rich History of Failure’, by pseudonymous author ‘Professor Neve R. Stenning-Stihl’, prompted a minor flurry of debate and criticism on Twitter and other internet forums.
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George E Marcus is currently Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and founder of its Center for Ethnography.
Bunker Roy established the only fully solar electrified Barefoot College in the deserts of Rajasthan in India 40 years ago. At Creative Innovation 2014 he speaks about the only College in India built by the poor and managed by the rural poor.
At the Thinking For Yourself conference, Richard Teese weighs into the education debate, explaining why in Australia only broad-based educational systems (rather than devolved, autonomous ones) will deliver equality of educational opportunity.
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Dorothy Howard was a noted author and scholar of children's games and folklore, an American educationalist and anthropologist who contributed significantly to the recording and cataloguing of Australia's history in this area. June Factor, Australian author (Alright Vegemite, Far out Brussel Sprout) and
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In this Key Thinkers (Sydney Ideas) presentation, Professor Mark Colyvan, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, discusses the ideas of Kurt Gödel. Kurt Gödel was one of the foremost mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century. He studied the
Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby returns to his alma mater, the University of Sydney, to deliver an entertaining yet substantial speech on his distinguished legal career. He...