education

Summit deputy chairman Professor Glyn Davis reckons Australia’s universities should be run like the American higher education system.

Professor Davis will argue in a speech today that America’s higher education system is more stable than Australia’s because it is more decentralised, with legal and financial responsibility primarily in the hands of the states. Universities are also given more power to set their own tuition fees, and students are offered a wide range of institutions from which to choose.

Well, “he will have argued”, because this was this morning’s newspaper reporting something that hadn’t actually happened yet. Newspapers know the future.

Apart from that, nothing much new to report. Everyone is presumably busy going through nominations. Tomorrow I’ll look to see what the blogosphere is saying.

Here’s a nice little out-of-touch conversation, between three private schoolboys on a Sydney North Shore train.

Schoolboy 1: I feel sorry for the suckers in state schools.

Schoolboy 2: Their parents have no idea.

Schoolboy 3: How do they expect their kids to become captains of industry?

This was overhead by Sydney Morning Herald reader John, from Umina Beach (not published online). Three things strike me:

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