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The 2022 awards see work with climate change being acknowledged and a wife and husband team making the list.   COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA Dr Alan Simon FINKEL AO, South Yarra VIC 3141 For eminent service to science, to national energy innovation and research infrastructure capability, to climate change and COVID-19…

Postgraduate student Xiyue Wang alleges broad failures by university in three-year imprisonment, while experts see more complicated reality

There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came primarily from the right. Today, however, most of the opposition to freedom of thought comes from the left.

Beijing is using dismissals, arrests, and a repressive new law to curtail students’ and professors’ rights.

Keeping discussion free May 15,2021 - Last updated at May 15,2021 MELBOURNE — Last month, the Journal of Controversial Ideas — of which I am a co-editor — published its first issue. The journal is a response to the shrinking boundary, even in liberal democracies, of acceptable discourse. It is specifically designed to provide a forum in which authors can, if they wish, use a pseudonym to avoid running the risk of receiving personal abuse, including death threats, or of irrevocably harming...

Article – Binoy Kampmark   Forget the global university rankings of any list. The global university promotion exercise is filled with snake oil and perfumed refuse, an effort to corrupt the unknowing and steal from the gullible. The aim here is to convince parents, potential … Forget the global university rankings of any list. The global university promotion exercise is filled with snake oil and perfumed refuse, an effort to corrupt the unknowing and steal from the gullible. The aim here ...

Monday, 15 March 2021, 4:12 pm   Forget the global university rankings of any list. The global university promotion exercise is filled with snake oil and perfumed refuse, an effort to corrupt the unknowing and steal from the gullible. The aim here is to convince parents, potential students and academics that their institutions of white collar crime are appealing enough to warrant enrolment and employment at. Writing in 2019, Ellen Hazelkorn, who has had an eye on the rankings system for some ...

Global Public Policy Institute Global Levels of Academic Freedom 2019: Status Groups According to Academic Freedom Index (scale 0-1). Countries with "A" rankings have the highest score, and those with E rankings have the lowest. Countries in gray are not rated due to insufficient data. Comparative data on academic freedom has been hard to come by, but a new index released Thursday assigns ratings to countries based on how free scholars are to teach and research. The index relies on expert asses...

To our first guest today, senator sanders in sarratt sarratt. along the way, jamie dimon in recent years has paid himself into the tens of millions of dollars. meanwhile, the average american familys value has gone down 40%. if you were on the committee tomorrow, what would your first question be? >> first question would be havent you learned anything from what wall street did four years ago where your recklessness and greed drove this country into a terrible recession. why dont you start invest...