Reading to your child: the difference it makes
May 05, 2016 16:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
If you are a parent or a teacher, you most probably read stories to young children. Together, you laugh and point at the pictures. You engage them with a few simple questions. And they respond. So what happens to...
Social Media Revolution Series
How social media is changing the church
May 05, 2016 16:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Over the Easter weekend, the Church of England encouraged its congregation to share photos of their services and celebrations on social media using the hashtag #EasterJoy. Its not strange for a large organisation to...
How spirituality can help us cope with the trials of ageing
May 05, 2016 15:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Old age is a time of many challenges. Retirement brings opportunities, but for many people it also results in loss of role and income. Loved ones may die, leading to the need to grieve and reconstruct life, sometimes...
Can you imagine a world without Budweiser? We can
May 04, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Budweiser, the so-called King of Beers, may be on its last kegs. It may seem odd to picture the demise of the flagship brand of the worlds largest beer company. But Anheuser-Busch the U.S.-based unit of AB InBev is...
Bertrand Russell and the case for 'Philosophy for Everyone'
May 04, 2016 04:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
One of the interesting questions we face as philosophers who are attempting to make philosophical ideas accessible for a general audience, is whether or not everyone can or should do philosophy. Some philosophers wish...
A more transparent university admissions process? Here's what we should be talking about
May 02, 2016 01:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Its been a tough year for the Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR). First, a Fairfax Media investigation showed that large numbers of students are being admitted to university programs with scores well below the...
Forcing all schools to turn into academies is not education's biggest problem
Apr 29, 2016 10:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Nicky Morgan faced a grilling from MPs on the House of Commons Education Select Committee on April 27 to answer questions some positive and intended to be helpful and some hostile about the governments recent education...