Full employment abandoned: shifting sands and policy failures

English Language Teaching in Iran: A Case of Shifting Sands, Ambiguity, and Incoherent Policy and Practice

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...

Full employment abandoned: the triumph of ideology over evidence

Professor William Mitchell holds the Chair in Economics at Charles Darwin University and is the Director for the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at CDU. He holds conjoint professorial positions at the University of Newcastle and Monash University (attached to the European Centre). He also is a Visiting Professor at Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and is on the management b...

The shifting sands algorithm

We resolve the problem of small-space approximate selection in random-order streams. Specifically, we present an algorithm that reads the n elements of a set in random order and returns an element whose rank differs from the true median by at most n while storing a constant number of elements and counters at any one time. This is optimal: it was previously shown that achieving better accuracy r...

A Policy Program for Full Employment

Building a Sea Urchin on Shifting Sands

Constructing a multicellular organism from scratch is a staggeringly challenging task. It seems even more miraculous when you consider that it’s actually entirely orchestrated by a few thousand genes and their protein products, acting (largely autonomously) within each one of the rapidly dividing cells. The most crucial of these genes and proteins regulate each other in intricately interconnect...