I am currently writing this in the final “pomodoro” of a one-day writing retreat. Earlier in the year, and from Twitter, I had seen that my friend John Flood was on a two-day writing retreat with his Griffith University Law School colleagues. It looked fun, and, and perhaps more importantly, like he (and his colleagues) […] … learn more→

After Brexit, there are various things that some in the EU hope to see and hear less in the future. One is Nigel Farage. Another is the English language. In the early hours of June 24, as the referendum outcome was becoming clear, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, left-wing MEP and French presidential candidate, tweeted that “English cannot […] … learn more→

In his exuberant history The Dream of Rome, Boris Johnson reveals something of his own early schooling. “Between the ages of eight and eleven I was educated at a marvellous place in Brussels called the European School. It is one of the few schools in the world that is avowedly political, rather than religious, in […] … learn more→

There are three easy ways to lie with statistics, ways anybody can use, and will pass peer review. It is important for the readers to know this, because of the following: Many scientific studies can’t be replicated. That’s a problem. It’s no secret that there’s a big problem with science nowadays. While many view “science” […] … learn more→

College graduates of the new millennium are different than previous generations. Not just because they prefer Snapchat to email and have mountains of school loans, but also because of their choices of where to live. In the past, several factors such as the proportion of a city’s workers who are college educated, job prospects, income […] … learn more→

The relative neglect of higher education investment in political debate is a missed opportunity. The economic evidence is that not only does higher education build the economy’s skills and knowledge, but that it pays for itself many times over. On average, university training in Australia has paid a rate of return of around 14-15% according […] … learn more→

For decades now, every school in the country has focused on growth, growth over standards, growth over reason, growth over need. It’s been easy to acquire such growth, thanks to the student loan scam, and our rulers of higher education have awarded themselves gargantuan salaries and magnificent golden parachutes due to their “leadership” in signing […] … learn more→