This is sad to see as I studied there and back then it was a pretty vibrant campus. I think the Uni system in Australia has been in decline for a while though and basically is just focused on churning out mediocre degrees for international students.. I think now for a lot of careers people are better off looking at other paths than taking on the huge HECS debt to study at Uni here.
#AUStriches reach another milestone on the way to peak fiat.
The new amalgamated University of Adelaide is scrapping face-to-face lectures in favour of “rich digital learning activities” - ie. online courses only.
Our only “export” that isn’t digging shit out of the ground to sell to China, Edumacation, is on its last legs.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/sep/13/adelaide-university-dumps-face-to-face-lectures nostr:note1ddzuh7lthfv7d9pjcmr4glgemedekh6vdrr4zwlafu8mnuhvagnqmxe99l
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Completely agree. I studied there too.
The merger was just a cash grab for Uni SA’s land.
Bet their course fees don’t drop by a third. Meanwhile the board and chancellor’s pay still goes up.
Exceptionally disappointing.
Matt Barrie in his keynote mentions that 20 years ago we got a lot of US students and they’ve pretty much completely disappeared: nostr:note1rv4ttr9tjzjlkkyyl8nmdd0ycgzkdcxmujsx2trqhz0vvef8pl9q2z9slr
In fact I know 3 kids in the US now on college scholarships - the trend seems to have reversed.
The Unis have been rolling in cash building amazing facilities but the quality of education has fallen off a cliff. Very few courses worth Uni nowadays, none worth the HECS debt imho.