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29 juin 2016

How the young have forged European identity – from the Grand Tour to the Erasmus generation

By Maurizio Ascari. As a wave of Eurosceptic feeling continues to spread across Europe, few voices are extolling the educational and cultural benefits of political union on the continent. Yet many of today’s young Europeans, as their ancestors did before them, see the European Union’s ability to widen their eyes to transnational forms of identity. More...

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29 juin 2016

How British teenagers are making American high-school proms their own

By Julie Tinson. That most American of institutions, the high-school prom, has now become a regular feature marking the end of the summer term in many British schools. While “coming-of-age” celebrations are popular in a variety of cultures and countries, the high-school prom transcends the religious observances normally associated with rites of passage. More...

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29 juin 2016

Why education departments should be broken up

By Rodney Maddock and Lea Campbell. Australia already spends lots of money on education. National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), the My School website, and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) analysis are giving taxpayers more information (such as student gains in subject areas) of the quality of the output of the education system. More...

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29 juin 2016

How students from non-English-speaking backgrounds learn to read and write in different ways

By Sally Baker and Georgina Ramsay. Not only is this statement a misleading appropriation of statistics, it fails to address the complex issues of why students — and not just those from refugee backgrounds — may struggle with reading and writing. More...

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29 juin 2016

Report urges India to allow overseas universities to open up campuses

By Trent Brown and Craig Jeffrey. Last year, the Indian government called for a review into how to best reform its education system. The findings and recommendations reported in the media this week reflect the momentum building in India for change in the sector. More...

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29 juin 2016

Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians

By Bill Fogarty and Benjamin Wilson. The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences.
Media reporting and policies almost always focus on what is “wrong” with Indigenous Australians. They look at the problems Indigenous people face compared to non-Indigenous Australians. More...

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29 juin 2016

Does government spending on education promote economic growth?

By Fabrizio Carmignani. Economic growth is driven by new ideas, by discoveries that result in better products and more efficient production technologies. More...

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29 juin 2016

PolicyCheck: Labor’s $3 billion child care plan

By Ben Phillips. Labor has unveiled a $3 billion child care policy, proposing to lift the annual cap on the Child Care Rebate from $7,500 to $10,000 per child and increase the Child Care Benefit by 15% starting January 1, 2017. More...

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29 juin 2016

OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education

By Geoff Sharrock. In any campaign, truth is an early casualty. Political leaders use simple facts and figures to prove one policy good, another bad. But reality is more complex. As John F. Kennedy said to students at Yale in 1962:

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”

Scholars have a duty to debunk such myths with independent analysis. But our own sector has skin in the policy game. More...

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29 juin 2016

Uncapping of university places has not failed disadvantaged students

By Tim Pitman. The Group of Eight (Go8), which represents Australia’s elite universities, has called for university places to be recapped, saying that the demand-driven system has failed to sufficiently boost numbers of disadvantaged students entering higher education – one of its primary goals – and therefore the additional cost to the taxpayer is unjustified. More...

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