Three key policy errors in the legislation mean the Morrison government is unlikely to achieve the stated goals of its package.
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Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
Demand is high for teachers with expertise in STEM subjects like maths. But students also deserve expert English, history, civics or geography teachers. Maybe your favourite teacher did an arts degree.
Experts in the humanities and social sciences add nuance to the debate about how to respond to COVID-19.
Doubling the cost of degrees in the humanities and social sciences has a disproportionate impact on women because they account for two-thirds of the students.
Developments in the 80s set the parameters for much of the political discourse around the humanities since.
The reduced rate of funding to universities (of up to 17%), per place, for national priority courses sends perverse messages to universities.
The implications of the government’s announcement are about more than incentivising the career trajectories of students. They are a direct assault on the premise of universities.
The government has more than doubled the cost of humanities degrees to encourage ‘job-ready’ graduates. But on what evidence?
The education minister has outlined reforms to higher education funding aimed at producing ‘job ready graduates’. But his announcements don’t seem completely in line with the data.
During two 17th-century medical calamities, economic imperatives outweighed moral concerns.
The ‘tough guy’ is a cultural archetype that political leaders have long adopted. But during crises, Americans tend to look for a different kind of hero.
South Carolina’s black community has a long history of fighting for democratic rights.
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
Largely self-taught, Adams learned to harness the communicative power of photography during his years as a marketing photographer.
A growing chorus of people say the US has never been so politically divided. A Civil War historian reminds readers that there was once a far more divided time.
Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
Spirituals were created out of the experience of enslaved people in the US. They weren’t songs of anger – but of an abiding belief in the victory of good over evil.
A new look at detailed data about Civil War skirmishes along the Mississippi River reveals another key to the Union’s victory.
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos put environmental risks at the top of its agenda, while the world’s CEOs see overregulation as their biggest threat.
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional Lecturer in Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology
