Education 
The Walled Cities of Academia Damage Young Academics
The world of academia is supposed to provide the tools through which academics enlighten, develop, and improve the world. However, is that always the case? By…
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Conatus Blogs
The Missed Opportunity of Gonski 2.0
The Gonski 2.0 report is a missed opportunity which doubles down on what has caused declining achievement standards in Australian education. On Monday morning in Australia,…
Education
A Critical Examination of Calls for a ’21st-Century Education’
Education reformers often argue the need for ’21st-century education.’ Do their calls for an education revolution stand up to scrutiny? The issue of education reform is…
Education
Is Australia’s Literacy Education Failing Its Children?
Despite ever-increasing investment in education, Australia’s literacy rates are not improving and are falling behind those of other nations. Why is this so? The gradual decline…
Education
Will International Students Continue To Prefer UK Universities?
With lesser prospects for employment in the UK, and lack of stability, international students’ preference for UK Universities is likely to severely drop.
Education
Academic Decolonisation: the Slippery Slope of Dismantling Knowledge
The discourse surrounding academic decolonisation furnishes today’s intellectual and moralistic justifications for racism.
Battle of Ideas
Rearing Generation Safe Space – Abandoning Dialogue for Delusion
Millennials, who so virulently champion safe spaces, seem clueless about the dangers of eroding an atmosphere conducive to free speech.
Education
A Plea for a Return to a More Humane Understanding of the Humanities
Politicisation I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, ‘critical race’ theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern…
Culture
Homegrown Arab: Choosing a Positive Identity in a Time of Populism
This is the time when identity politics and identity policing can prove noxious. Populist and nationalist movements are not the answer.
Book Reviews
‘I Find That Offensive!’ – The Reasons Behind Millennial Outrage
In her pithy, ebullient addition to Biteback Publishing’s Provocations series, Claire Fox makes a rousing appeal to Generation Snowflake to throw off their bubble wrap and…