Comments on: Sensational

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:39:23 +0000

I’m outraged by these foreigners. I’m also outraged by food additives, dodgy builders, credit card interest rates, fine print, ordinary hard-working tax-paying fair dinkum true blue mum-and-dad aussie Australians being cheated out of their hard earned money.

I’m also outraged by the twisting of truth, perversion of justice and people losing the way.

And foreigners stole my baby. And my the food out of my children’s mouths. And things. I’m outraged by things. And uh … stuff. Stuff and things. So, how about that local sports team and those outrageous umpiring decisions.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:41:37 +0000

I’d love a Mac Degree.

East Asia is more affluent than Australia? Seriously? But your point is taken. The previous generations get through with free tertiary education, and then once they get put in charge, decide that it wasn’t worth it, and us lot will have to damn well pay. Everywhere I look in Uni there seems to be cost-cutting. Tutorials are obviously more beneficial to a student than a lecture, but they slowly disappear while lectures are increased, simply because you have to pay more people for tutorials.

Back on the topic of high schools though, it’s a strange situation to have government schools offering paid positions. It’s not like we have a shortage of schools to pay to enter. But then, it’s just about money again, I suppose. Education gets less and less important every day. After all, what good are clever people? I don’t trust them.

By: penny

penny — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:14:06 +0000

The real scandal is that most universities have been scandalously under funded for the last decade or so. Universities have had the education funding gutted out for other projects but the right wing government under a decade of John Howard. Universities have had the choice of offering places to international students- to make up the chronic shortfall of funding by the government.

Universities are now offering Mc Degrees- where people from more affluent countries such as main land China, East Asia, and to a lesser degree other parts of the world. They came after hocking them selves to the eye balls in debt to study highly sort after degrees such as engineering and commerce which in their home country costs even more and places are even more highly sort after. Your average Asian student owes thousands of dollars just like every one else. To appease some public concern for Australian Domestic students, the HECS fees administration was set up promising that if you really wanted to go to university you could get a loan and pay through the nose just like every one else.

Where every one looses is Universities dumb down their studies and can’t afford things like humanities and political comment. It’s Mac Degrees to those that can afford it and the narrow minded approch to research and learning is the real problem down the track.

Sorry people for my rant but I agree News Paper coverage is BIASED and places like here are the only true free press.