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Alan Tudge's Healthy Ambition
Since the creation of the Australian federal education portfolio in 1963, there have been 26 ministers: placeholders, buffoons, political animals and true believers. The average tenure has been around two years. Few have arrived in the role with sign…
Dr David Hastie

Education

Alan Tudge's Healthy Ambition
Education

Alan Tudge's Healthy Ambition

Since the creation of the Australian federal education portfolio in 1963, there have been 26 ministers: placeholders, buffoons, political animals and true believers. The average tenure has been around two years. Few have arrived in the role with sign…
Education

Biblical Theory and Research Paradigms

Have you ever been criticised for offering an opinion based on Biblical understanding? Did you ever have a university or college lecturer who explicitly taught you through their ideological lens, to the point of ridiculing anyone who attempted to ask a q…
Independent higher education should not be excluded from research funding

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Independent higher education should not be excluded from research funding

Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven recently described the research funding debates in an article in the Australian (“break in supply chain means elite unis struggle to survive”, September 5) as a “hunger games”. His concern is tha…
Independent Higher Education in the time of COVID

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Independent Higher Education in the time of COVID

It has been a bizarre year in higher education, with most of the attention focused on our public universities and their woes in the absence of international student income. Independent higher education though is about 10% of the system and growing, so it…
What would a Gonski for Higher Education look like?

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What would a Gonski for Higher Education look like?

While controversy has surrounded the implementation of the Gonski recommendations for school education, there is general agreement on the soundness of the principle articulated in the original Gonski report of “sector-blind needs-based” funding. In Aust…

Education

The Paradox of Ethnocentric Ethnorelativism: An Examination of a Christian Worldview

In the present context of rapid globalisation, one of the unique challenges with which Christian educators have to grapple is equipping students to engage with multiple worldviews in their community and workplaces, without compromising their own (Chri…

Education

The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM): Explored

This article builds on my post ‘The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM)’ (Crucis, November 6, 2015). The first article tried to position the CTM within the broad concept of how we learn best for practical application from the commencement of a career in te…

Education

Transformational Education – or Not?

Christian schools play a significant role in Australian society. My interest is in the effectiveness of Christian schooling, a topic to which I have devoted my doctoral studies. Specifically I want to appraise whether member schools of Christian Schoo…

Education

The Clinical Teaching Model (CTM)

What if we assumed that learning is as much a part of our human nature as eating or sleeping, that it is both life-sustaining and inevitable, and that – given a chance – we are quite good at it? And what if, in addition, we assumed that learning is, …
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