Balancing cybersecurity and academic freedom is a challenge on campus
Dec 05, 2016 05:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Cybersecurity concerns crop up everywhere you turn lately around the election, email services, retailers. And academic institutions havent been immune to security breaches either. According to a recent report by VMware,...
Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution
Dec 05, 2016 05:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The Productivity Commissions study report on introducing competition into human services was quickly labelled as proposing privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services. This isnt really the case. The...
Financial wizardry alone won't stave off a Chinese debt crisis
Dec 05, 2016 04:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Chinas debt is beyond worrying. Its credit-to-GDP gap, a measure employed by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) as a way to gauge debt levels, stands at 30%. This is the highest of any country going back to 1995...
John Key quits while he's ahead – so what's next for New Zealand politics?
Dec 05, 2016 04:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
No-one saw it coming. Not even the press gallery did, even when called in early for Mondays briefing from New Zealand Prime Minister John Key who unexpectedly announced his resignation. This takes effect on December 12...
Governments need to look beyond education rankings and focus on inequities in the system
Dec 05, 2016 04:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The latest Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) results will be released around the world on December 6. And as usual, there will be a flurry in the news media. Australia will likely have dropped further...
How e-cigarettes could 'health wash' the tobacco industry
Dec 04, 2016 23:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business
The evidence that e-cigarettes help people quit smoking was described in the World Health Organisations (WHO) recent report as scant and of low certainty. Predictably, this triggered the latest round of claims and...
Should we do away with exams altogether? No, but we need to rethink their design and purpose
Dec 04, 2016 23:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the past two decades there have been frequent calls to abandon exams. The major criticisms of exams in schools and universities tend to relate to either the misuse or overuse of exams, and not to the sensible use...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects