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Masters of the universe: How nigh’s the end?

AFTER LISTENING TO the eminent scientist cataloguing the ever-increasing evidence of significant climate change – rising temperatures, rising seas,...

By Julianne Schultz

Dangerous shoes

Selected for Best Australian Stories 2006"SENSITIVITY!" CRIES DONNA. "That's what I want us to be about." She cocks her...

By Christine Stanton

Beyond the comfort zone

LAST WEEK I was on a train. In the same carriage was a collection of object studies for parental...

By Margaret Simons

Making a difference

AMROZI. JUST SAYING his name dissolves the thin laughter lines that usually radiate out from retired teacher Maggi Luke's...

By Megan Kinninment

Just the way it is

"BUT THAT'S JUST how it's always been done," the grey-haired, tweed-trimmed headmaster said, somewhat mystified, somewhat incredulous and very...

By Isabelle Reinecke

Making the grade

PROGRESSIVES IN AUSTRALIA have generally adopted a conservative approach to reform of primary and secondary education. This would be...

By Andrew Leigh

Research to excellence

WHAT PETER DRUCKER described as the "knowledge economy" in 1969 is now a competitive global market, with higher education...

By Gavin Moodie

Amusing and stimulating small minds

EVERYONE KNEW HIS name was Michael, but no one whom he instructed in Latin would have dreamed of calling...

By Gideon Haigh

I hear with my eyes

I'M DEAF. MY being deaf seems to be significant to other people. "Why do you speak like that?" This...

By Donna McDonald

Outside in a teaching life

WHEN BB TAUNTED me with continual cries of "You killed Jesus, you killed Jesus ... " I had no...

By Peter Davis

Capricornia 1967 – a governess remembers

IN AN INTERVIEW with the vocational guidance officer sent out on the rural circuit during my final year of...

By Jena Woodhouse

Open doors or prison walls?

I'M ONE OF the lucky ones. Part of the baby-boom generation, I benefited from postwar economic prosperity and government...

By Ross Homel