Mark Riboldi

Tag: education

  • The problem with expensive things

    If I tell you that something is expensive, what do you think? For example a few years ago I bought a second-hand copy of George Orwell’s essay collection England Your England for $35. Is that expensive? On Amazon a second-hand hardcopy edition of the same collection is $25. Does that change your impression? Love0 Share…

  • Australia’s Education Sausage Factory

    Since the recent protests by Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney, the media spotlight has been on Australia’s international education industry. It’s an export industry estimated to be worth around $14 billion a year, and the industry that I’ve earned my living from for the last four years. I started working as an English teacher…

  • Australia’s Lowering Tertiary Standards

    Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing quite a lot of IELTS examining. For those who don’t know, this is how I earn most of my dough these days. IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and it’s the language test that people do if they want to immigrate to or study…