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GIRLS TALK IS a classic Dave Edmunds song, penned by Elvis Costello, and it captures in a few verses...

ON JUNE 2004, the Prime Minister, John Howard, and the former Federal Minister for Education, Brendan Nelson, announced a...

By Anna Clark

IN MID-WINTER, NEW Brunswick is a long, cold train ride from Penn Station in Manhattan. The New Jersey transit...

By Glyn Davis

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters; how well, they understoodIts human position....– WH AudenABOUT GLAMOUR THEY were...

By Helen Elliott

IF YOU GET a casual job as an academic at an Australian university, you think you are very lucky...

By Inez Baranay

IN MY TEENS I revered writers. I hung onto their words the way my classmates hung onto marijuana. I...

By Lee Kofman

"LET'S PLAY HANGMAN," says my eleven year-old daughter, Claire. Heavy rain is falling and so we settle at the...

By Jeff McMullen

IN 1991, I did something that once would have been beyond imagination. I enrolled my eldest child in an...

IN 1984, I was a seventeen year-old Aboriginal youth just finishing school. I had a Tertiary Entrance score that...

By Chris Sarra

IT IS SAD that after thirteen years of schooling, education is reduced to a series of acronyms and numbers....

By Chris Summers

OVER THE PAST 30 years, the level at which disadvantaged schools have been funded has increased and there has...

By Richard Teese

IN THE COURSE of the 35 years in which I taught in universities, a number of people had suggested...

By Michael Wilding