While it may not seem the top dispute in the country, what is being played out at Brisbane's Qld University of Technology is a mirror on the sort of campus life being trialed for the rest of the country. It is both ideological and structural. It is also a dispute that is being debated and recorded in video format and fought out on YouTube
Background:
QUT international post-graduate student Ben Chua, from Singapore, expresses concern regarding QUT, an Australian University, where two academics were recently suspended for 6 months without pay after publicly criticizing the content & author of a PhD project entitled: "Laughing at the Disabled: Creating Comedy Which Confronts, Offends and Entertains.
Jun 19, 2007
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