First community rising: Justice for Bourke
Something is happening in Bourke in northwest NSW. It is not immediately apparent in the town’s flat, main road, or on the red grassy plains, or even under the twisted Coolabah trees on the olive-brown Darling River.
Learning for the western world? The Indigenous education dilemma by Bill Fogarty
Last week the Western Australian Indigenous Labor MP, Ben Wyatt, told a conference in Perth that Aboriginal children in remote communities need a “full Western education”.
Beyond Learn to Earn – how policy can better support those who need it most
The Australian Youth Affairs Coalition (AYAC) have released current research into the Australian Government’s ‘Learn or Earn’ program following its implementation three years ago.
On the Non-existence of Hard and Soft Skills by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta
Contemporary education is grounded in a set of assumptions as profoundly flawed and outdated as flat-earth theory. These stem from the labelling of social knowledge as “soft skills” and academic knowledge as “hard skills”