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How our school fits art and creativity into a busy timetable
Embedding art and creativity into the school curriculum can have positive impacts on pupils, driving engagement and learning across all subjects. But to do it successfully we need to give the gift of time back to teachers.
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
Credit: Shutterstock During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently. For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. Saving lives demands nothing less than full compliance with unprecedented restrictions. For the economic crisis, it is logical to be worried. Elsewhere, I have distinguished between economic wants and needs, and right now the provision of needs is under threat.
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently. For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. Saving lives demands nothing less than full compliance with unprecedented restrictions. For the economic crisis, it is logical to be worried. Elsewhere, I have distinguished between economic wants and needs, and right now the provision of needs is under threat.
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently. For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. Saving lives demands nothing less than full compliance with unprecedented restrictions. For the economic crisis, it is logical to be worried. Elsewhere, I have distinguished between economic wants and needs, and right now the provision of needs is under threat.
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently. For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. Saving lives demands nothing less than full compliance with unprecedented restrictions. For the economic crisis, it is logical to be worried. Elsewhere, I have distinguished between economic wants and needs, and right now the provision of needs is under threat.
A tip for bankers ahead of the royal commission: be more like doctors
GUEST OBSERVATION The financial services royal commission resumes for its final round of hearings on Monday, and reappearing before Justice Hayne will be the chief executives each of the big six institutions he has in his sights: the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, AMP, Macquarie, ANZ, and the National Australia Bank.
A tip for bankers ahead of the royal commission: be more like doctors
The financial services royal commission resumes for its final round of hearings on Monday, and reappearing before Justice Hayne will be the chief executives each of the big six institutions he has in his sights: the Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, AMP, Macquarie, ANZ, and the National Australia Bank.
It is necessary to worry about health, but pessimism about the economy will hurt us
During this pandemic, our twin health and economic crises require two different types of concern, and they operate differently. For the health crisis, a high level of concern is necessary. Saving lives demands nothing less than full compliance with unprecedented restrictions. For the economic crisis, it is logical to be worried. Elsewhere, I have distinguished between economic wants and needs[1], and right now the provision of needs is under threat.
Election 2016: In Praise of Welfare Waste
Sometimes a society agrees to put up with something unpleasant, while managing it the best that it can, in order to secure something valuable. This is the case with some welfare waste. Credit: Peter Dazeley / Getty Images Gordon Menzies is Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Technology in Sydney, and Deputy Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality.
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