Monthly Archives: March 2011

Is higher education a ticket to snobsville?

By Evelyn Tsitas | Published: 30/03/2011
It’s been a good week to bucket humanities students. First cab off the rank was Half term Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Given that she “trashed the National Endowment for the Arts” – nicely put by an LA times blogger – on the Fox News Talk Show, her views that the arts were “frivolous things” perhaps [...]
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March of the moguls: New management tools at Ten Holdings

By Vincent ODonnell | Published: 24/03/2011
Publicly, it has been a quiet week in media policy matters, putting aside the delay in the deal to give NBN Co. access to Telstra’s ducts to lay the fibre optic cables that will form the communication sinews of the network. But under great secrecy, lawyers for rival networks Seven and Ten, have been beavering [...]
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Why do academics complain all the time?

By Inger Mewburn | Published: 18/03/2011
Have you ever noticed how much your workmates complain? I say this with love because I’m an academic myself. I’ve worked in the university system for about 17 years and I love academia with every last corner of my heart. I believe in the mission. I love how downright clever all the people I work [...]
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What to do when you’re expecting – a doctorate

By Evelyn Tsitas | Published: 17/03/2011
Doing a doctorate is a lot like being pregnant. If you have done neither, trust me, they are both exhausting and change your life totally. If you already have your PhD, I am sure there is no forgetting the grueling slog you went through. Like me, a mother of two, you can smile benignly at [...]
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The bottom line for universities

By Sinclair Davidson | Published: 09/03/2011
At the time the Federal government introduced their second stimulus package in early 2009 it was forecasting Australia would recover quickly and return to high levels of economic growth. In particular, the 2009-10 Budget forecast that the economy would bounce back to 4.5 percent growth in 2011/12. The government had essentially adopted a ‘grow out [...]
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Smiling in Christchurch

By Sian Prior | Published: 07/03/2011
I know we love to sentimentalise victims. When bad stuff happens to people, we assume they’re saints. Journalists are the worst offenders. Even tax-dodging, cartel-concocting captains of industry become national heroes when they get ill or die, according to the newspapers. But I refuse to let my embarrassment about the worst narrative clichés of my profession prevent me from stating what I believe to be true: the residents of Christchurch are the nicest people I ever met.
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