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The Myth Of Too Many University Students, Bob Birrell, Daniel Edwards, Ian Dobson, T Smith
The Myth Of Too Many University Students, Bob Birrell, Daniel Edwards, Ian Dobson, T Smith
Dr Daniel Edwards
The Coalition Government has recently asserted that too many young Australians are training to become professionals and not enough as traditional tradespersons. By implication, there is a surfeit of young professionals. This article challenges these assertions. It shows that there has been a substantial increase in the employment of professionals since the Coalition came to power in 1996. Yet over the same period, the number of domestic students in Australian universities at the undergraduate level has hardly increased at all. All of the increase in professional training at the undergraduate level in Australian universities has been directed at overseas students. …
“It’S Like A Story”: Rhetorical Knowledge Development In Advanced Academic Literacy, Christine Tardy
“It’S Like A Story”: Rhetorical Knowledge Development In Advanced Academic Literacy, Christine Tardy
Christine M. Tardy
In the academic ranks of schooling, writing tasks move gradually from a focus on the transmission of knowledge to the transformation of knowledge. As a more complex writing task, knowledge-transforming requires writers to engage in the rhetorical act of persuading readers of their work's value, significance, and credibility. At the postgraduate level, writers may be wrestling with these issues for the first time, often discovering this more occluded rhetorical dimension only after they have become somewhat more comfortable with issues of generic form or subject-matter content. This paper explores the nature and role of rhetorical knowledge in advanced academic literacy …
Increasing The Economic Development Benefits Of Higher Education In Michigan, Timothy Bartik
Increasing The Economic Development Benefits Of Higher Education In Michigan, Timothy Bartik
Timothy J. Bartik
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