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Bad news for the University of Wollongong: if elected, Labor leader Kevin Rudd will demand higher educational standards.
(Rudd’s new TV ad is also notable for the powerful gesture accompanying his latest weird phrase addiction.)
Given previous evidence of what passes for writing that merits recognition at U of W, I imagine requiring ANY educational standards at all will cause them trouble.
Posted by Not My Problem on 2007 01 24 at 12:50 PM • permalinkThe rot in the social sciences and humanities starts at the top. The politicisation of the faculties started so long ago that you have to be over 50 to know when it was different. Since about 1975 it was just accepted that this is the way things are supposed to be.
How has it become possible for what is effectively an extended political pamphlet [A book called “Us and Them”] to pass as an addition to scholarship, with the blessing of the Academy of Social Sciences and the National Institute for Social Sciences and Law?
Three factors appear to be at work.
First, the lamentable standard of scholarship in much of the social sciences and humanities, despite the explosion of activity in the last half century.
Second, the politicization of large tracts of the social sciences and humanities.
Third, a shift in the progressive political program from economics and equality to a whole range of issues, and with it, an overwhelming tone of moral snobbery.
These processes have gone on without adequate reporting because it was not in interests of anyone close to the action to do so.
This is a leaked copy of another proposed ad.
From campaign notes by “Tiny” Kim; to the tune of Tiptoe Through the Tulips with ukelele accompaniment:Tiptoe to the back door,
By the back door, that is where I’ll be;
Throw the fair go out the backdoor with me.
Knee deep in bullshit we’ll play,
We’ll keep the voters away,
And if I miss you on the hustings, in the leadup
To next polling day
Just throw a fair go out the back door, okay?Oh, tiptoe from the garden,
From the garden of the knowledge tree,
Chuck a Local Branch out the backdoor, with me.Raise the bar in Education?
It’s the teachers who are so ego orientated that fail to see the system has failed because of them.
F- teachers and academics…
Today’s Australia day has been sponsored by:“Islamic-Australian pensioners Insurance agency” for over 55 year old Jihads.
:“Islamb the real meat Corporation”
“The Big Riot Day out”
“White girls Called Convicts Bikinis babes Ptd Ltd”
Oh, and Blair News, it’s gutsy and it’s good!!
xxx timbOT.. I see John Kerry has given up on being the Pres. He has cut and run again.
Posted by curious george on 2007 01 24 at 06:06 PM • permalinkAre you holding an uncovered-meat barbeque, too, 1.618?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 24 at 06:52 PM • permalinkRudd is right, fairness should not be thrown out the back door. It should be cleaned, folded till it is flat, and neatly and carefully put out the front in the recycling bin set aside specifically for social qualities.
It can then be recycled as other qualities such as limitless tolerance, instead of ending up as landfill. Recklessly discarded fairness makes Gaia cry.
Think people.
OT: Was just in Graf Ave West Ryde and the Physio (opp Library) has “Free David Hicks” “Enough is Enough” displayed in his window.
Think its time to boycott any traitorous business that displays this.
Scumbags!
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 01 24 at 07:36 PM • permalinkO/T This bloke should do a stint in Oz and Canada. Especially watch the vids.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 24 at 09:11 PM • permalinkI would not believe a Labor Leader when he says, that he wants ‘higher education standards’. It’s thanks to Labor under Whitlam, that all the rot started coming in. After all, I would think the Teachers Union would support Rudd, ergo, you have a leader already at the behest of his supporters. No, I think Rudd’s higher education will be something where meaningless words and titles for graduates will be the order of the day. The rest will all be schlock. Really, only more of “The Elevator” rubbish.
But seriously, Rudderless is getting a bit of a collection going here of slogans that he hopes will stick. I can imagine all the ALP Focus Groups and spin doctors poring over the stats of what has resonance and what doesn’t.
- Fork in the road
- Bridge too far
- Out the back doorChuck ‘em all up and see which ones fly. If this bunch turn out to be turkeys he’s got McKew & Co. thinking up a new bunch.
We mock this sloganeering that the ALP/ACTU go on with but thinking in slogans is what they do best. Coming up with workable policies that won’t bankrupt us is the hard bit.
Anyway, any of these slogans that get quietly dumped, well, we’re here to remind him aren’t we?
Graham Richardson said in his book “Whatever It Takes” that the first group he visited when proselytising a new area was the teachers.
The ALP will always throw a bone to the teachers (the youth propaganda wing), the Yarts (the other propaganda wing), the media (pretty close to employed campaign staff) and a morsel to the average worker, who these days cannot be entirely trusted.
The left of the ALP is only a bee’s dick apart from the loopy Greens and Democraps. Nobody likes them, not even the rest of the ALP.The thumb gesture we all want to see is the one where Rudd pulls it out of his
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 25 at 02:44 AM • permalinkIn regard to Mr Kevin “I’m a Backdoor Man” Rudd.
Does anyone remember this song?:
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10296/20010907/www.dot.net.au/_galconv/back door man.mp3Posted by The Mild Colonial Boy on 2007 01 25 at 06:19 AM • permalinkLet me try that link again.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10296/20010907/www.dot.net.au/_galconv/back door man.mp3Posted by The Mild Colonial Boy on 2007 01 25 at 06:22 AM • permalinkI am glad Mr Rudd told us that the State Labor parties cannot be trusted with education or water.
Mr Howard must be laughing at Rudds stupidity.
Posted by curious george on 2007 01 25 at 06:38 AM • permalink#39 - Yes, it seems his big policy might be to abolish the States.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 01 25 at 08:47 AM • permalinkPardon ?
Your prime example of a university which should be worried by a call for higher education standards is the University of Wollongong, the Commonwealth University of the Year, consistantly ranked as one of the 10 best in Australia and in the top 200 in the world ?Well there certainly does appear to be a lack of education on this topic.
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Kevin “the back door man” Rudd? A rather unexpected image for a prime ministerial aspirant to choose.