Consider the following revelations for a moment:
Excerpt from The Straits Times:
Universities in Australia have been accepting large numbers of students who fall below the admission requirements, prompting concerns about a decline in the nation's education standards.
The falling entry standards came to light after figures were published last week by Fairfax Media showing that leading universities in the state of New South Wales have been accepting students whose high school rankings were well below the universities' advertised minimum.
These included Macquarie University, where 64 per cent of students who were offered places for this year had a ranking below the cut- off. The figure was 46 per cent at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), 27 per cent at the University of Sydney, and 59 per cent at Western Sydney University. Universities in other Australian states reportedly had similar numbers.
New South Wales State Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said he believed the admission practices of the universities risked damaging their international reputation.
Excerpt from Transitioning.org :
Most of the Generation Y unemployed people I saw have at least a degree and some even paid quite a lot of money to secure a solid university education from overseas – mostly Australian universities.
They are also mostly engineers, IT specialists or finance graduates. A huge percentage of them come from middle-income family background and stay in HDB flats.
Excerpt from Mothership:
Anil Sandhu, 33, Lawyer at Kertar & Co
“I had a torrid 3 years in JC. I never gained any confidence because the tests and exams were always unrealistically difficult. I ended up with C, D, & E for my 'A' Levels.”
“I was lucky that my parents could afford to send me to Australia where I initially attended the Australian National University in Canberra, majoring in Science. The educational environment in Australia was liberating for me. It gave me the time to appreciate the content and room to be creative, and I finished close to the top of class in my first year, which allowed me to apply to law school in Adelaide.”
Now here are the facts.
1. There are so many mediocre universities in Australia ranging from the bottom of the barrel (Charles Sturt University) to unknowns like Swinburne University or even the known but weak schools like Curtin University. This is analogous to Singapore featuring an assortment of tertiary institutions ranging from SIM all the way to NUS.
More at http://www.domainofexperts.com/2018/03/a-stigma-truly-exists-against-graduates.html
Excerpt from The Straits Times:
Universities in Australia have been accepting large numbers of students who fall below the admission requirements, prompting concerns about a decline in the nation's education standards.
The falling entry standards came to light after figures were published last week by Fairfax Media showing that leading universities in the state of New South Wales have been accepting students whose high school rankings were well below the universities' advertised minimum.
These included Macquarie University, where 64 per cent of students who were offered places for this year had a ranking below the cut- off. The figure was 46 per cent at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), 27 per cent at the University of Sydney, and 59 per cent at Western Sydney University. Universities in other Australian states reportedly had similar numbers.
New South Wales State Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said he believed the admission practices of the universities risked damaging their international reputation.
Excerpt from Transitioning.org :
Most of the Generation Y unemployed people I saw have at least a degree and some even paid quite a lot of money to secure a solid university education from overseas – mostly Australian universities.
They are also mostly engineers, IT specialists or finance graduates. A huge percentage of them come from middle-income family background and stay in HDB flats.
Excerpt from Mothership:
Anil Sandhu, 33, Lawyer at Kertar & Co
“I had a torrid 3 years in JC. I never gained any confidence because the tests and exams were always unrealistically difficult. I ended up with C, D, & E for my 'A' Levels.”
“I was lucky that my parents could afford to send me to Australia where I initially attended the Australian National University in Canberra, majoring in Science. The educational environment in Australia was liberating for me. It gave me the time to appreciate the content and room to be creative, and I finished close to the top of class in my first year, which allowed me to apply to law school in Adelaide.”
Now here are the facts.
1. There are so many mediocre universities in Australia ranging from the bottom of the barrel (Charles Sturt University) to unknowns like Swinburne University or even the known but weak schools like Curtin University. This is analogous to Singapore featuring an assortment of tertiary institutions ranging from SIM all the way to NUS.
More at http://www.domainofexperts.com/2018/03/a-stigma-truly-exists-against-graduates.html
