Month: June 2020

Ross Gittins, whom we all agree should be prime minister, has written another piercing Age column, this time about the federal government’s new university funding. Citing  a Griffith University academic’s research, he showed that universities will be expected to do more with less. Overall, he writes, the government will cut funding per student by $1883 annually. And although it will be cheaper to study disciplines such as engineering, maths, and science, which allegedly lead to jobs and a booming economy, …

Read more

It staggers me that faults are written into newspaper headings. (I haven’t looked at whether they are carried over into digital media.) Just the other day, The Age, a once-great newspaper, published a heading on its editorial page, the one on which its various editors are named, its opinions set in stone. Over a letter to the editor, the heading said: ‘We must start to properly funding tertiary education’. Apart from the split infinitive, the ‘ing’ on the end of …

Read more