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Humility: Tsai Ing-wen on the Cardinal Democratic Virtue

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

imageTaiwan’s President-elect Tsai Ing-wenHong Kong Free Press

Greeted by the fizz of fireworks, flags, honking horns and a jubilant throng of tens of thousands of citizens, president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took to the stage last Saturday, in front of her national campaign headquarters in Taipei, to say a few words after...

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The ideas boom – where to from here on?

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imageMalcolm Turnbull's ideas boom shouldn't be confined to big business.Dean Lewins/AAP

The Commonwealth Government has quite wisely recognised Australia’s long-term prosperity is unlikely to rely on our traditional areas of excellence. The exporting days for coal are numbered; easy power from open-cut mining may be out-priced by renewables; and...

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Recruiting students with higher grades won't alone improve teaching quality in schools

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imageSetting minimum ATAR levels will not improve quality of teaching. from www.shutterstock.com

The Victorian government’s plan to introduce a (as yet unspecified) minimum ATAR for students looking to study a teaching course is not a silver bullet to improving teaching standards in schools.

Recruiting teachers with higher grades may help improve...

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