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Jeff Sparrow on ‘the Imbecilic Andrew Bolt’ and Unseen Academicals:
…“My problem is not,” [writes Alecia Simmonds], “that our public sphere harbours ill-educated members (like the imbecilic Andrew Bolt who never made it past first-year uni).”
Thoughts on Gonski and education reform.
With the Gonski reforms expected to be rolled out across Australia in the coming 5 years, it is handy to reflect on what actually are the basic challenges for school reform in Australia. A view of the underlying issues helps one to judge the likely outcomes of the current reforms and others one might think of.
Timothy Devinney on Overpaid Vice-Chancellors
In an excellent recent piece on his own website, Timothy Devinney looks at how the compensation of Australian Vice Chancellors compares to those of the UK and the US. He gave me permission to re-use his calculations.
Consumption/GDP in China: Chart of the day
From the Bank of Canada’s Financial Stability Review – Dec 2012.
Curiouser and curiouser
Meanwhile political correctness idiocy proceeds apace. Here’s an email I received today.
Your expertise and experience . . . makes you ideally placed to inform this research. We would appreciate the opportunity to capture your thoughts . . . . The interviews will be carried out over the phone and will take approximately 40 minutes.
If you are willing to take part in an interview, you should understand that:
Andrew Leigh and Adrian Pagan on our Book
The book launch tour of Australia ended last week with a visit to the Melbourne Institute, where Deborah Cobb-Clark kindly hosted the last in our marathon-series of 5 launches. They all were a great success, with the publisher actually running out of books for the last one and thus having to scramble for extra copies.
The Corporatist Manifesto II: the Pernicious Vice of Welfare Dependency
(You can catch up with Part I here.)