universities

Teaching to the SET, by Grazyna Zajdow

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The student as consumer and monitoring academic staff

‘Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair!’, by Bruce Buchan

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On the ruins of Western civilisation

‘To the Edge of Freedom’: May ’68 and Now, by Alison Caddick

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Here, then, in Paris, in one of the heartlands of the Western tradition/logos, in one of the oldest universities in the world, there seems to have been a sense that the whole of existence was being newly lifted into the political.

The University Does Not Think, by Simon Cooper

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The fate of knowledge in an age of innovation

Statement from NTEU Victorian Secretary Colin Long on the Suspension of Roz Ward

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Wednesday was a bleak day for Australian universities, for freedom of speech and for democracy. On that day, the management of La Trobe University suspended from work Roz Ward, NTEU member and Safe Schools advocate, on serious misconduct charges. Her alleged offence? That she wrote, in a private Facebook post, that it would be good if the “racist” Australian flag flying over Parliament were one day to be replaced by the red flag. It is time for decent people, who believe in reasoned argument, freedom of speech, intellectual freedom and democracy to stand up against the deeply anti-democratic bullying of the Australian right, especially its media mouthpieces.