Good News! Good News! The Bell Tolls for the Australian Universities! By James Reed
I was feeling a little flat until I got to this item, that thousands of university jobs are at risk, merely from a cut back on the international students, who had been making up over 50 percent of the student population at some universities. Serves them right as my mother would say! They might as well have just given the places to China: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/26/a-thousand-australian-university-jobs-are-at-risk-whos-to-blame-for-the-dire-financial-state?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0hcmqcYLzCZDOhGlhNEnxyVuZSR08OGBjCST5aPqc9MXnrMJeAeB1IpJc_aem_k4QZVNbyta0LCLBK2zOcCA .
The other good thing is that with China war, inevitable, mother China will call all of her people back, and if we Aussies are not nuked to oblivion by our trading partner, we may have a chance of getting back a grain of national pride after being, well, we all know how low this country has fallen.
Finally, there is a movement of young Aussies away from the traditional universities, which are crumbling:
"Young Aussies are ditching the traditional university experience, with an increasing number looking into alternative pathways.
Earlier this month, experts warned that Australia's university sector was "on the brink", with the majority of the country's 10 top centres of higher learning suffering falls in the latest global ranking from Times Higher Education.
The survey marks 2860 universities across the world on a range of metrics, with the results showing just one Australian university – the University of Melbourne – made it into the top 50.
The University of Melbourne ranked in the 39th position, falling from spot 37.
The majority of Aussie unis also fell from their previous positions on the ladder.
Australian National University in Canberra fell to the 73rd spot from 67th, the University of Sydney went from at 61 from 60, the University of Adelaide moved down to 128 from 111 and the University of Queensland retreated seven places to 77 from 70.
Damian Gascoigne, the Associate Dean at JMC Academy, a leading creative industries education provider, told news.com.au he is seeing a jump in the number of students looking for alternative higher education pathways.
"We find an increasing number of students are feeling a bit lost in larger educational settings. They want to feel valued as individuals and are hungry for the social experience of tertiary education, not just the academic side," he said.
"We're talking about a cohort of students who lost valuable face-to-face teaching time at school due to Covid and they crave that smaller scale classroom learning."
Recent data from the Department of Education found the number of undergraduate students at public universities decreased by 1.6 per cent between 2022 and 2023. This follows on from a 3.8 per cent decrease in 2022.
Mr Gascoigne said smaller institutions offer smaller class sizes compared to larger, traditional universities, along with more hands-on tuition."
What is needed is a return to trades and technical skills rather than drowning the young in woke at the universities, and Leftist brainwashing.
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