From ars technica: “Listening to podcasted versions of university lectures seems to be better for students than simply going to class, according to new research by State University of New York (SUNY) Fredonia psychologist Dani McKinney. Her study, titled “iTunes University and the classroom: Can podcasts replace Professors?” suggests that students who download the podcast [...]
READ MOREWhy stop at bus passes, make the rich pay for public education
Well, I’m being devil’s advocate to some extent but don’t the arguments being made against free school travel also apply to school education? In a system that is starved of funds especially in lower socio-economic areas, wouldn’t it be fairer to impose a modest fee on well-off parents who send their kids to places like [...]
READ MOREAt last some sense on student unionism
One of the silliest, and stupidly destructive, decisions of the Howard Government was the introduction of ‘voluntary student unionism’. This was an ideological battle left over from the 1970s that had remained an obsession with people like Tony Abbott, Peter Costello and Eric Abetz. All that happened was that services provided on campuses around the [...]
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