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University rankings provide useless answers to the wrong question. The question students should be asking is not which university is "best" but which one is best for them.
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When we pass on, will we be revered as "good ancestors?" Or, will we hand the next generation a poorer, riskier, and more troubled world than the one our parents left us?
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I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is…
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Gold has been called a "barbarous relic," an ancient atavism. Yet, it is still bought, sold, and traded in every corner of the world. What lies behind the lure of gold?
Australian higher education has a proud history, but there is trouble ahead. Costs are rising, and the regulatory regime is stuck in the last century.

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The formula for peaceful coexistence is simple. Always start by being nice to others, forgive those who mistreat you, but don't be a pushover.
The formula for peaceful coexistence is simple. Always start by being nice to others, forgive those who mistreat you, but don't be a pushover.
Despite a large increase in the number of university graduates, economic productivity has barely budged. Expanding universities even further will not…
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Universities that articulate a clear vision of what they are trying to achieve for society can recapture the respect that higher education once enjoyed.
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Taxing the low-paid in order to cancel the loans of better-paid university graduates is unfair, unnecessary and unlikely to influence the courses that…
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Banning classroom discussions of "challenging" topics such as suicide does not protect sensitive university students; it could cost some of them their…
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We all owe a debt to the humanities. The debt has been accumulating for thousands of years. It is not calculated in dollars and cents, but in ideas.
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Advertising, hype, and brand management are all the rage at universities, and I am as guilty as anyone. Bless me, father, for I too have "spinned."
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Restoring the traditional virtues--honesty, courage, tolerance, loyalty, honour and patriotism--to education, medicine, and politics.
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