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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Boom and bust: the parlous health of our state finances
We are most of the way through a very long budget season this year, beginning with Victorian Treasurer Kim Wells in May and is not due to end till Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls delivers his first budget on September 12. Late on Friday night, Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu released details of the deep public sector [...]
Posted in Business, Economics & Finance, Politics Tagged budget, mining boom, mining tax, revenue, state government, treasurer Comments closed
What’s up with universities – Whackademia or just grumpy old academics?
When a friend showed me the blurb for Whackademia: an insider’s account of the troubled university, I immediately left the office to buy a copy, solely on the promise in the title. I read it in just two sittings but finished with conflicted feelings. This book made me angry when I agreed with what it [...]
Posted in Education, Research, Writing Tagged academia, academics, Richard Hil, Whackademia Comments closed
The auspicious university: What’s an artist to do?
I work with the cool people at the university: artists, designers, architects, social scientists, humanities scholars and educators – all sorts of excellent people. Many of them are professionals in their chosen professions. That is, they are professional artists, designers, architects, poets, writers, etc. Their research is ‘practice-based’ research; they create stuff. The process of [...]
Posted in Art & Design, Education, Research Tagged arts funding, auspicing agent, funding, practicing artist, research funding, university lecturer Comments closed
Last call
Checked my email and no response from the President yet. The size of the NAFSA conference means it is the networking event par excellence. From an Australian perspective, with partner institutions and agents from all over the world in attendance, the opportunity to meet, negotiate, discuss, manage relationships, develop new partnerships and business and student [...]
The carbon tax needn’t cost you: easy ways to cut energy costs