Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Qudrant on October 2, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Given the parlous state of Australia’s education system, which sees so many students leave school morally adrift, emotionally fraught, and culturally illiterate, it’s not surprising hundreds of […]
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Two noteworthy overseas higher-ed items recently crossed my desk. The first came from Britain, where the coalition government has decided to rework the nation’s science instructional standards. Among the proposed changes: eliminating the requirement that science classes “challenge injustice.” Education Secretary Michael Gove argued that such “irrelevant material” contributes “nothing to helping students deepen their stock of knowledge.” While it’s […]
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The University of Colorado’s dismissal of Ward Churchill for academic fraud was not only a welcome decision in support of scholarly standards, it will also go some way towards discrediting one of the most depressing tendencies of our era, the politicisation of history. In Australia, Churchill has long been frequently cited by historians of Aboriginal […]
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