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10/04/19

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Originally posted by madamswer: ↑

"you sound like a shill for the tertiary sector, the brutal fact is our monetisation of this sector has devalued it immensely. "

Precisely.

While once bastions of learning and enlightenment, today these institutions are totally run as businesses.

Technology (lectures and assessments being able to be done online) have made universities highly scale-able with near-unlimited admissions for many courses (the exceptions being degrees that have meaningful "practical" components, such as medicine and engineering).

As a result, admission standards have been lowered and there has been a proliferation of "degrees" that can be pursued.

My teenage son has friends in his circle who can barely string words together in sentences that make any sense and yet they are all "studying" at uni... doing some or other arbitrary courses. And all funded by HECS debt, needless to say.

Their motivation when I ask: "Yeah, nah. Uni beats working full-time."

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Maybe they aspire to be a union official when they graduate. THEN a politician. WOW!

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