Consider these couple of data points from LEADING US and really global universities:
Then there is this:
Harvard University to Offer Segregated Graduation Ceremonies Based on Race, Class, Sexuality
It makes one wonder. Is it the tail wagging the dog or the dog wagging the tail.
Are these crazy practices a “producer” response to “customer” demand driven by outside factors or our factories of elites production, universities, seeking to produce a different type of elite?
I suspect it is a product of both and expect this sort of nonsense to follow into Australia. Not today, but soon. You can already see the signs.
In the US, “College enrollment peaked and started to decline a decade ago.” Not so in Australia. But this is in large part due to foreign students. And now the Labor Government wants to send more and more kids to University for a dubious justification.
This has been enabled by the well intentioned but since massively exploited HECS-HELP system.
Australia now produces some of the best university educated baristas and waiters. Trapped by debt and blaming “capitalism” and voting green.
How do you destroy an economy. There is a good case study to write about the last 25 years of government policy in Australia.
My grandfather used to call some of these people coming out of university, over educated imbeciles. Most of our politicians come from these universities.