Hey Dorothea,
"Universities across the world are floundering from the effects of coronavirus. Some are struggling to survive and risk bankruptcy."

Good. If we didn't have universities we wouldn't have idiots manufacturing biological weapons and we wouldn't have COVID-19.

They won't go bankrupt.
The government will bail out their financial incompetence, and the children of tomorrow will all pay for it, regardless of whether they go to university or not.

Universities shouldn't exist if the intelligence of all the people associated with them isn't enough to save them from bankruptcy.
How many financial experts come out of University?
- And they can't manage their own finances?

We should save ourselves the future liability of this political insurgency petri dish that's ruining our society and just bulldoze them all.
Send all the spoilt little window smashers and the Marxist professors that indoctrinate them into the rice paddies for the proliteriat promoting mindset they support.
Oh- they were planning on everyone else doing all the work.
Too bad so sad, be careful what you wish for.

Universities gave us Antifa and COVID-19.
Both of those things we can do without.

What about the people that empty your wheelie bin every week?
You want to take their taxes for your University when you will never have to dump your own rubbish.
Those people will never benefit from a government cash splash to universities but you're happy to take from them?

Not to mention Universities hand in immigration and support for immigration that brought COVID-19 here.

On some level this country really would be better if all the people at university were working on farms growing fruit and vegetables.

'Universities gave us Antifa and COVID-19.
Both of those things we can do without.'

true right Armchair.

Because of the lying gutless activist professors who rewrite history and preach the gw religion in order to keep their jobs (just ask Peter Ridd) our country is far worse off. You could add the destruction of simple biological truths, gender bending and the 'white privilege myth' to Armchair's list.

'We need as much intellectual capital as can be garnered.'

Universities stopped producing intellectual graduates when the leftie ideologies took them over.
Now those same lefties are complaining they cannot cope in a capitalist economy ... and we are supposed to be surprised and shell out the taxes, we paid, to prop them up.

China, intellectualism and capitalism ... really ... pipe dreams in or so-claimed 'intellectual' institutions.

What a grovelling attitude from the lefties.

Grammarly, so helpful!
Alan B.
Why do use Grammarly, did you attend University ?

Reduce the millions paid out for guessing & give more to research !
Anyhow, can anyone tell us what the most costly part of research is ?
Is it equipment/facilities or salaries for people who never discover anything?

No we are not weakening the institutions that can solve coronavirus, but we just may be kicking them back into something that will serve us, the funders of these institutions.

If people no longer trust or respect these "institutions" they have no one to blame but themselves. They have been due for a serious shake up for some time ,& this crises can only be good for them.

It is time for them to decide if they want to be funded by the taxpayer, & therefor answerable to them, or private business organisations, after the biggest buck they can find.

The first thing we must do is remove from them the de-facto right to operate as an immigration agency. A degree must not carry the right to stay in Oz. Then we must make them more efficient, getting a days work for a days pay from academic staff.

Once this is done, they may become useful citizens again, rather than blood suckers.