The headmaster of a £28,000-a-year private school has indicated he is considering inviting a porn star to teach sex education to his pupils. Mark Slater, head of The Leys in Cambridge, said students at the historic school need to be aware of the unrealistic nature of the online material. It is vital that children are [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Economics, England, Fark!, Funnies, Popular culture, Sexuality
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Tagged mark slater, prostitution, secondary education, sex education, the leys school
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JULIA Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action planned at the University of NSW today. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop on campus. Postings on a Facebook page [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Australia, Economics, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Media, Middle east, Politics
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Tagged anti-Semitism, BDS, boycott divestment and sanctions, chocolate, Facebook, IDS, Israel, israeli strauss group, Julia Gillard, Max Brenner, max brenner boycott, Palestine, university of new south wales, zionism
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This post is cross-posted to Thesiswhisperer. Clearly, it’s aimed at research students (PhD and MPhil), but I thought it might also be of interest to readers here. The funding of research training is one of the things I’ve discussed in my PhD. Do you feel that your institution is putting pressure on you to submit [...]
November 25, 2012 – 10:15 am
In May this year, I wrote a post about the case of Rose Ashton-Weir, who, with her mother, Elizabeth Weir, was suing Geelong Grammar because she alleged it did not support her to a sufficient degree to allow her to get into Law at Sydney University. Judgment has been handed down (Weir v Geelong Grammar [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Children, Law, Motherhood, Parenthood, Society
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Tagged breach of contract, compensatory damages, Education, Geelong Grammar, gifted, Law School, misleading and deceptive conduct, negligence, Rose Ashton-Weir
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October 22, 2012 – 6:33 pm
Every now and then, I’m sitting in an examination room at my old English school. There’s been some problem with my A-Level exams, and they’ve asked me to re-sit the History exam some 20 years later to prove it was really me who took the original exam. I am trying my best to write essays [...]
Litigation involving student evaluations of university lecturers is a topic I’ve touched on some years ago. Student evaluations are particularly nerve-wracking for a lecturer if she or he is a sessional lecturer (or in US terms, an adjunct lecturer). I spent some years as a sessional lecturer, and it really sucked. It was the lack [...]
Today (Tuesday 31st) is Milton Friedman’s centenary. It seems appropriate to link to some Milton Friedman quotes here and here. Various bloggers have offered their comments, including Bryan Caplan’s ode, Tyler Cowen notes how much he is still needed, Lars Christensen writes him a letter, and David Glasner continues his campaign against the Wall St [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Academia, Drugs, Economics, Public Policy, Welfare
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Tagged Bryan Caplan, David Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, John Maynard Keynes, Lars Christensen, milton friedman, Paul Krugman, Tyler Cowen
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Maybe it’s just me, but I find the piece excerpted below (in HuffPo) rather disturbing, along with the revelations that the same thing is going on in Australian schools. It is less common in Britain; parents are more likely to tell the school to f*ck off, and in any case the school day is an [...]
One of the hard things about teaching is that there is only so much you can do. You can try to lead students to information, but in the end, it’s up to them how much of that information they choose to take in, and final responsibility for performance in exams, tests or essays rests with [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Children, Law, Parenthood, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged Education, fortune cookies, Geelong Grammar, Law, law degree, Rose Ashton-Weir, sense of entitlement, study, Sydney University, teaching, tertiary degrees, VCAT
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Instead of doing, you know, actual work last night (how do I hate thee HMRC, let me count the ways), I spent quite a bit of the evening reading articles and responding to the news that new Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has cancelled (I’m not sure if that’s the right word, but never mind) the [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Academia, Australia, Books, Economics, Law, Literature, Politics, Popular culture, The Left
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Tagged Campbell Newman, David Hicks, externalities, Guantanamo Bay, Jonathan Haidt, merit goods, Miles Franklin Award, milton friedman, Nick Earls, Queensland Premier, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Stella Prize, Tony Abbott, Unaipon Award
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