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By Dilan Thampapillai, published 11/12/2009Universities in transition. Don’t fear the corporate university - but question its governance structure.
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fair enough on the "few generations ago". i missed that. however, my point stands, that there was a time when unis were both (substantially) egalitarian AND had standards. neither is now true.
the reason tertiary education is required for employment is pretty much because it is required. that is, employers demand it because they can, students are then forced to go to uni/tafe, and lecturers are forced to dumb down subjects for the huge increase in students, and the huge decrease in the standards of those students. the upshot is that zillions of students learn bugger all, for bugger all reason, at humongous expense to both the students and the society as a whole.
perhaps tafe et al is different from the major unis, though i question the quality of the vocational training. i've tutored a few such students, and they always seemed to be struggling with useless junk. not only was it useless, it was awfully presented and it was infested with jargon and pseudo-theory, to disguise the junkiness. for vocational purposes, that made it ultra-junk.
whatever for tafes, the major universities have been destroyed. they have given up the role of true learning, either for the discipline itself or for more vocational ends. instead, they are offering pseudo-intellectualism, pseudo-vocation, and childminding. at this stage, australian universities are simply a scam.