I have not seen comparable statistics for Australia, but according to a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll, 56 percent of Americans believe a four-year university degree is a poor investment, while 42 percent still have confidence in the universities. The main bunch of scepticism is among the 18-34-year-old cohort, who would be the most likely to be visiting the universities for ritualistic brainwashing. But, it is not just the woke Arts/social science areas that are falling, but it goes across the board, as student debt has made the university experience as sour one. In Australia, some statistics put the overseas component of students at around one quarter, and vice chancellors, well named I always thought, would be happy to transfer these institutions to 100 percent foreign.
If so, then all local Vice chancellors need to be replaced by special vice chancellors, coming all the way from communist China.