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What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a job

  • Written by: Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project; and Online Teacher at Education Queensland's IMPACT Centre, The University of Queensland
What's the point of education? It's no longer just about getting a jobToday's view of education is largely underpinned by the philosophy of pragmatism.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

This essay is part of a series of articles on the future of education.

For much of human history, education has served an important purpose, ensuring we have the tools to survive. People need jobs to eat and to have jobs, they...

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Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerous

  • Written by: Mihiri Silva, Paediatric dentist, Senior Lecturer and Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Beware the teething trap. Many products don't work, and can even be dangerousThe symptoms we put down to teething might be caused by something else. And many teething products, like gels and necklaces, might actually harm.from www.shutterstock.com

If you imagine a teething child, what do you see? An irritable tot with a fever, in pain, and generally unwell?

Teething’s a normal developmental process that people have...

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More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more help

  • Written by: Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
More students are going to university than before, but those at risk of dropping out need more helpMore students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are attending university than a decade ago.from shutterstock.com

Enrolments to Australian public universities boomed during the last decade. This was due to a government policy known as “demand driven funding”, which between 2012 and 2017 allowed universities to enrol unlimited numbers...

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how remote communities are building on payment for ecosystem services

  • Written by: Hannah Robertson, Innovation Fellow and Lecturer, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Monash University

The payment for ecosystem services (PES) model is supporting a new wave of self-determined construction on Aboriginal homelands.

With no secure strategy for government infrastructure investment in homelands, particularly in new housing or new homelands, PES provides an alternative approach to support meaningful livelihoods on Country. Importantly,...

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  1. The New York Times ends daily political cartoons, but it's not the death of the art form
  2. Young Australians champion 'democracy' and 'freedom' in designing constitutional change
  3. Australia's pristine beaches have a poo problem
  4. Lambie's vote key if government wants to have medevac repealed
  5. Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
  6. Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
  7. Michelle Grattan on John Setka, press freedom, Adani approval and tax
  8. Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
  9. Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
  10. what it's like to be a pensioner renting privately as Australia's housing costs soar
  11. How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
  12. is white meat as bad for your cholesterol levels as red meat?
  13. the all-knowing narrator in Kim Scott's Taboo
  14. City temperatures and city economics, a hidden relationship between sun and wind and profits
  15. Children with autism may use memory differently. Understanding this could help us teach them
  16. Sick with the flu? Here's why you feel so bad
  17. Barry Humphries' humour is now history – that's the fate of topical, satirical comedy
  18. the RBA's marching orders are no longer realistic. They'll have to change
  19. Adani is cleared to start digging its coal mine – six key questions answered
  20. Why too many fearless people on a team make collaboration less likely
  21. Racial abuse is rife in junior sports – and little is being done to address it
  22. 6 actions Australia's government can take right now to target online racism
  23. The battle to stare down the defiant John Setka
  24. Undocumented plant extinctions are a big problem in Australia – here’s why they go unnoticed
  25. Hong Kong in crisis over relationship with China – and there does not appear to be a good solution
  26. A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago
  27. Our culture affects the way we look after ourselves. It should shape the health care we receive, too
  28. a journey through the inferno to robots and extinction
  29. NT wants to end 'naming and shaming' of juvenile offenders, sparking press freedom debate
  30. Will the Coalition's approach to gender equality actually improve women's lives?
  31. We're not just living for longer – but we're staying healthier for longer, too
  32. our copyright laws and the Australian Aboriginal flag
  33. Creatives in the country? Blockchain and agtech can create unexpected jobs in regional Australia
  34. Parents say their children have tutors to fill gaps, not to charge ahead
  35. how a ‘repair economy’ creates a kinder, more caring community
  36. Why old-school climate denial has had its day
  37. ACTU's Sally McManus to confront CFMMEU's John Setka
  38. why do leeches suck our blood?
  39. The Nightingale - much ado about nothing
  40. A parasite attack on Darwin's finches means they're losing their lovesong
  41. flying taxi trials may lead to passenger service by 2023
  42. How New Zealand’s well-being budget delivers for the environment
  43. Fertility miracle or fake news? Understanding which IVF 'add-ons' really work
  44. why did the dinosaurs die?
  45. The shameful history of blundering asylum seeker policy
  46. Establishing fitness to stand trial as the first step in Christchurch attack court process
  47. Australians are less interested in news and consume less of it compared to other countries, survey finds
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