reach out to a homeless person living on the streets in my suburb?
OzSpen,
If I could have my way there wouldn't be a homeless person in the whole Nation !
If I could have my way there would be more fairness in the distribution of the nation's wealth.
How would I do that you might ask ?
I would have a Flat tax for a start & do away with the Commercial welfare that is negative gearing. That alone would create enough revenue to abolish poverty.
Only educate people do the standard they're capable of attaining not what they can be pushed to by other's money.

individual,

I used the example of the homeless to demonstrate a critical realist ontology by which I understand that people are more than the flesh that you see. This is a critical realist perspective that causes me to reach out to the homeless in my suburb.

My purpose was not to demonstrate how to reduce the number of homeless through government policy.

Why don't you write an article and submit to the editor of On Line Opinion to expound on your views?

ttbn,

<<Why are professional and ethical standards so important for universities? The universities don't seem to think they are important at all.>>

I'd like to know your evidence for these two statements. They seem awfully biased against universities to me.

What leads you to that conclusion? Are you a uni graduate who has experienced the disappointment of compromised professional and ethical standards at unis?

Or, are you reiterating what others say?

To OzSpen,

Ttbn can answer your question. But I've an answer for you as well.

The exponential cost to attend a university stinks of corruption in my opinion. Even if taxes help out with that in Australia, there should be no reason for the costs to dramatically increase as they do, or to be as high as they are as a whole.

The same goes to other markets like housing or medicine as well, with regards to unimaginable costs. But colleges and university, as far as I can tell, go unrestrained with raising the costs to attend.

to demonstrate a critical realist ontology by which I understand that people are more than the flesh that you see.
OzSpen
That is exactly the nucleus of my comments throughout the years. Unless we can convince people to be people instead of mere humans then I'm afraid all efforts are wasted.
I am getting bored with my constant suggestions of the importance of a National Service but I can not think of any other way to make humans to revert to being people. Such a service would give people a sense of belonging (the prime principle) & a sense of respect & responsibility.
Reward effort, re-introduce incentive & we'll be a better society overnight !
And, it'd be cheaper than the way we're going presently !
Imagine a media in which it's reporters have had the benefit of a National Service. No fake News, no hype etc.
People could actually become happier.

Do Universities have ethical Standards.

Hmmm... It has been my experience that, no they haven't. They seem to have lost that. It's called going with the Flow & Universities are run buy that rule.

Here are a couple of examples of my own personal experience. I won't mention the University for fear of being sued.

1. In discussions with an ex-neighbour. He was a Professor of Ecology or something. He couldn't tie his own shoelaces without help. He told me that if any of his Students didn't attend x number of the Demonstrations he organized without a really good excuse he would fail them regardless of how good their Papers were.

2. In recent discussions with a professor at the same University on exactly when Aboriginals arrived in Australia. The new figure quoted now is 40000 years ago & only one invasion.

I showed him other studies done a few years ago quoting a minimum of 70000 years ago based on Fluorescence. A cave in North Western Australia & a Stone Axe head & fires with burnt bone.

Other Studies cited three movements. 80000 years ago from the direction of the Malay Peninsular. They were a Negrito type people whose ancestors ended up in Tasmania.

The Second Group, an Austronesian Group, was about 45000 years ago coming across the Land bridge from SE Asia to Borneo thence to Australia. Spreading westward & through the Centre.

The Third Group about 15000 years ago, a Melanesian Group, coming from Indonesia & Papua New Guinea settling in Arnemland & Cape York & down the Eastern Seaboard.

Now this Professor denyed that there was any such studies. I gave him the names of the people who did the study. His argument was that that had all changed now. I asked him if if was for the sake of Political Correctness & keeping his Job. After some coaching he finally admitted that it was.... sort of.

Well that's two. The others I had thought of have slipped my mind for the moment. Getting old. But two good examples of PC v Ethical Standards.