How much you want to bet the spoiled brat children over there are going to complain “their futures are ruined” when the government just spared them a nightmare?
Related.
How much you want to bet the spoiled brat children over there are going to complain “their futures are ruined” when the government just spared them a nightmare?
Related.
Surely the MUST be joking !?
No more government student loans for learning Tantric massage !? OMG ! with no more qualified instructors … I will have to keep scheduling the same woman to “work” on me … even after she gets ollllddddd … like in her mid 30’s – ewwwww.
Surely there will be unintended consequences for Australia … more fights, more wars … all because they stopped “investing” in alternative “love” …
Good.
Out of all the courses offered by Canadian Universities and Community Colleges, what percentage fits into the truly useless category?
Early Childhood Education, Feminist Studies, Sociology, etc….and in the works: Co-ed coat hanger straightening, Registered Astronaut Assistant, etc., etc.
Looking at the examples given, yeah, these are worthless fluff courses for worthless fluff “jobs”, but aren’t intrinsically evil.
And these are not “college” courses, if by “college”, one means “university”. Vocational schools, and junior college. Maybe.
Seems to me more like a shot across the bows of creeping credentialism, the notion that one needs some sort of certification to perform a job that would best be learned through on the job training or apprenticeship.
If the government is using tax dollars to fund education, there should be a future pay-off for the taxpayers footing the bill. Subjects that lead to citizens who can build a bridge, research cancer cures, etc. are worth it. Real English and History, not the politically correct kind are also worthwhile, to transmit the culture to the next generation. Tantric massage? By all means, if that’s your passion study it, but do it on your own dime.
What the F%%% they should be doubling the Costs for useless degrees, these morons think they doing something by sending a WEAK message…
Make mommy & daddy pay for the nonsense….Let them mortgage the farm and collect on the loans….
But cutting funding for explosive ordnance manufacture is certainly the last straw!
It’s a start.
One of the main reasons higher education costs so much is that there is so much money made available by the government, taken from taxpayers who aren’t getting the education, given to students who aren’t themselves paying, and ultimately handed over to the schools that have two layers of screening (the students and the government) to insulate them from being accountable to their true customer (the taxpayer.) Supply and demand works both ways, the more money that is available, the more of it will be demanded by those selling their wares.
One reason those courses are offered in the first place is revenue. Some administrative bigwig figures out that the educational institution they’re associated with can make money by offering them. If they prove to be popular, competing institutions follow suit.
The justification for it is: “If we don’t offer those courses, someone else will.”
Pretty much nailed it!
The incestuous labyrinth of govt and education fiefdom fabricators are, it seems, co-dependent.
And, unfortunately there’s no shortage of willing parasites.
We’re screwed.
They are still paying for anger studies. What are you celebrating?
You forgot one of the worst: Journalism
Actually, a lot of them look like courses offered by fly-by-night private opetaions like tone ones that advertize on American daytime TV.
Fluff courses are more profitable to the colleges, it seems.
STEM requires one be in the top 30 percent, IQ wise, thereby excluding 70% of the population. Nevermind that a BA in gender studies will get you nothing.
There’s a sucker born every minute, and it is the one of the jobs of the free market to separate the suckers from their money. Myself, I draw the line when the state steps in and starts taking MY money to fund the suckers.
This Way to the Egress –>
Why not follow truth in labelling guidelines?
Post-Childhood Daycare
Kindergarten II
Adulthood, Arrest and Prevention
The cut courses look a lot like what’s offered by many “free” universities in west coast college towns. No loss. What’s amazing is that they paid for it previously. I never would have gotten my degree in Hippie Studies if this had gone into effect previously.
Australia is starting to sound like the last hope for sensible government. We’d still be on that train if it weren’t for the 39% of moronic canadians who voted for little spud.