Monday, January 14, 2002

Uni days a stretch for many

[the age 15.01.02]

A recent study has revealed that "[of] 132,777 students who started an undergraduate course in 1993, only 63 per cent had finished the degree six years later." The puts "Australia roughly in the middle of the OECD range for completion rates". Of course, the typical NUS response has been lack of government funding (rant, rant, bring back free education and big welfare payments, yadda, yadda, yadda), and the Federal Education Minister has provided a mixed response alluding to people "underestimating the complexity and difficultly of a higher education degree" or "choosing to change to vocational training."

I'm looking forward to returning to campus life, and being exposed to the extremists of politics and opinion. No doubt the b-school students will be depised by all other faculties. After all, we're learning to become masters of capitalism, the destructors of the free world.

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