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Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?

  • Written by Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
imageShould universities be allowed to deregulate fees for some courses?from www.shutterstock.com

In the options paper for higher education released on budget night, the government proposed the idea of “flagship courses”, which would mean that universities would be allowed to set the fees for some of their courses.

In the paper, the...

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The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives

  • Written by Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
imageBill Leak’s portrayal of an Aboriginal father as neglectful is not representative of Aboriginal family life.Courtesy the author.

As an Aboriginal mother, I am deeply concerned that our national broadsheet finds the neglect of Aboriginal children to be a source of entertainment and ridicule.

Bill Leak’s cartoon, published in The...

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  5. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  6. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
  7. Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay
  8. Common method of preventing early births may be causing more
  9. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  10. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  11. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  12. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  13. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  14. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  15. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  16. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  17. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  18. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  19. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  20. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  21. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  22. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  23. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  24. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  25. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  26. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  27. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  28. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  29. Ethics and writing
  30. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  31. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  32. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
  33. Should students pay different fees for university courses?
  34. Safe passage: we can help save koalas through urban design
  35. Games and gambling: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
  36. WikiLeaks reveals the TiSA agreement could cost Australian services
  37. Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised
  38. What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?
  39. Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think
  40. A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?
  41. Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans
  42. The solution to Australia's gas crisis is not more gas
  43. Baz’s Bronx: Get Down or Let Down?
  44. Rethinking youth justice: there are alternatives to juvenile detention
  45. There's work (and life) outside of universities for PhD graduates
  46. Reimagining NSW: tackling education inequality with early intervention and better research
  47. Future teachers improving in literacy and numeracy: Birmingham
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