Australia is just too far away to feel connected; the discussion feels remote and academic.
Even though his ideas are interesting and, at times, stimulating, they are routinely well-camouflaged by convoluted writing that is dry, remote, unnecessarily academic or -- often -- just plain boring.
To gauge the representativeness of our sample, we asked for geographical locations (major city, inner regional, outer regional or remote), 18 academic level (early career (level A) to professor (level E)) and whether the researcher's university belonged to one of eight research-intensive universities known as the Group of Eight (Go8, http://www.go8.edu.au).
These activities may seem remote from the academic world, but Hope and others credit his early success in academia to the wide range of skills he acquired from his previous work experience.
One of the strangest things to see is the way that "critical theory," which purported to advocate for and empower the marginalized in its inception, has become simply another remote attainment, another academic performance, for the educated elite.
One widely touted benefit of this is that the dispersed 'communities' of remote learners and academics established through digital technologies differ considerably in terms of social diversity, obligation, solidarity and social relations.
However, in Barnard's novel, set in a remote Australian university, the academic back-stabbing was literal, not figurative.
Center-left political thought, when it has not simply rationalized the demands of Democratic Party constituencies, has tended to be academic and remote from politics.
We observe that the large numbers of pharmacists using e-learning platforms in Poland are from remote areas, far from academic centres.
For graduates who choose to practice rurally, having been immersed in regional and remote locations for one academic year as medical students, is associated with practice in more remote locations.
