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School-leavers need better career education to make good choices
Open Forum | September 19, 2019The latest report from Global Access Partners (GAP) says universities should be encouraged to offer credit to school-leavers who achieve high results in relevant senior secondary courses, as well as develop new courses for specialist career educators.
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The challenge of the contemporary university
James Arvanitakis | September 19, 2019Professor James Arvanitakis argues that universities must consciously train graduates to be active, engaged, empowered and committed citizens, as well as pursuing traditional scholarship, if the world’s ‘wicked problems’ are to be addressed in time.
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Treading softly in power diplomacy
Natalia Grincheva | September 19, 2019Museums have emerged as new and effective actors of cultural soft power, including institutions in countries like China and Russia whose interests and actions seem diametrically opposed to the West.
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Lifelong learning for Australia’s future
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | September 18, 2019The upcoming GAP Annual Economic Summit will consider ways to prepare new generations of Australians for a future characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
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What President Trump needs to hear from Prime Minister Morrison
James Curran | September 18, 2019Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s state visit to Washington later this week is a rare honour, and he should make the most of it by telling Mr Trump a few home truths.
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Australia should retain more international students
Jihyun Lee | September 18, 2019Australia’s university sector is one of the most attractive for international students. So why not try to keep them when they graduate rather than lose the talent we’ve helped train and educate?
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Why are the rain forests burning?
Trent Penman | September 17, 2019Forests around the world – from the Amazon to South-East Asia and Australia – are on fire, largely due to the direct and indirect actions of man.
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What’s in store for Facebook Libra?
Ian Tan | September 17, 2019Facebook is working on a cryptocurrency called Libra, which it hopes will be used by millions of Facebook users in developing countries who don’t own a bank account.
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Mr Morrison goes to Washington
Peter Jennings | September 17, 2019There’s no doubting the friendship and shared history of the USA and Australia, but it’s not immediately obvious that their current leaders have a common vision for peace, security and prosperity.
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The human language of AI
Julian Koplin | September 16, 2019Artificial intelligence can be convincingly human-like when it writes news or even poetry, raising ethical issues for the future.
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NSW residents want action to safeguard water supplies
Stuart Snell | September 16, 2019As rainfall dwindles and reserves run dry, residents of NSW are increasingly anxious about the future of domestic fresh water supplies.
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Let’s “think different” about national security
Ewen Levick | September 16, 2019We know what the future of our region looks like, but unless we start thinking about how we think, that knowledge may not be enough to help us cope with it.
