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Kabul’s classrooms, rebuilt in the Taliban’s own image
12+ hour, 12+ min ago (595+ words) A class at the Mohammadi Orphanage in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 3 May 2026 (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP via Getty Images) While diplomats wait for girls to get back to school, a new madrassa network is remaking what boys are taught to become. Kabul’s classrooms,…...
Australia’s graduate visa fee hikes undercut its diplomacy with India
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (489+ words) Migration & refugees, explained. Australia’s post-study visa application fees now exceed those in competitor countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, giving prospective students a clear incentive to look elsewhere (Ye Myo Khant via Getty Images) Skilled graduates are being…...
Indonesia capability gets a budget lifeline
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (259+ words) A welcome funding allocation has arrived – but the political winds that could reverse it are already blowing. In Canberra language, that is modest. In the depleted world of Indonesia capability in Australia, it is close to oxygen. For those who…...
Australia’s oldest trading partner was Indonesia – it’s time students knew
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (181+ words) Embedding Indonesian history into the Australian curriculum would deepen ties with our most important neighbour. Australia–Indonesia ties are strong, but a missed opportunity lies in the classrooms of these neighbouring countries to embed their shared pre-colonial history and deepen…...
The case for universities as Australia’s soft power engine
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (769+ words) Education is Australia’s fourth-largest export and a tool of statecraft yet is so often undervalued in public debates. Compared with the scepticism in Western countries, education is clearly valued in many places as a path to economic prosperity at individual,…...
What to ask when choosing a career in the age of AI
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (210+ words) How societies adapt to technological change will be an important marker of national power. These individual decisions, taken at scale, are also shaping national skills pipelines, economic resilience, and how societies adapt to technological change. This pace of change raises…...
Public holiday: Australia Day
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (45+ words) Normal publishing will resume on Tuesday 27 January. Published daily by the Lowy Institute Public holiday: Australia Day Normal publishing will resume on Tuesday 27 January. We're taking a break from publishing for the public holiday. Your Top 10 most-read Interpreter articles in…...
The sidelining of human capital in Western industrial policy
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (599+ words) American high school seniors can’t pass algebra. Meanwhile, China dominates the tech sector with homegrown knowledge capital. Western policymakers have made a categorical error that's threatening technological leadership: they treat education policy as domestic social policy (the domain of state…...
Tariffs: Why Oxford students are more protectionist than their professors
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (896+ words) A classroom discussion reveals just how far the economic consensus has shifted. In a recent economics class at Oxford, my professor posed what seemed a straightforward question: Can anyone think of benefits of tariffs? I'm not a mind reader, but…...
Australians risk becoming “strangers in our own region”
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (455+ words) A parliamentary inquiry confronts decades of decline in language learning and cultural knowledge of the region. Australia’s future prosperity and security will be shaped in the Indo-Pacific. Yet, despite decades of warnings, our national Asia capability – knowledge of languages, cultures,…...