When I started my tertiary studies, they were "free". I only had to pay HECS for my final semester.
When it started, the fees were fairly reasonable and could be justified by making the people who will benefit from a Degree pay their way.
However, the University sector is now a huge government funded and controlled monstrosity. Mid level jobs that 30 years ago required a High School education now need a Degree. Think Nursing, Policing and Accounting.
Young people are being lumbered with a massive HECS debt and it is affecting their ability to get a home loan now - and with house prices ridiculously high the next generation will be renters.
So, good luck to these students getting a 20% reduction in their massively overpriced study costs. Remember, it's not a free market.
As a comparison, if your neighbours won the lottery would you cry "not fair" as you missed out?
How about when your friend gets a big inheritance and you don't? - also unfair?
You're conflating individual exigent circumstances with blanket government policy. Why should taxpayer money - which is expropriated from our earnings - be redirected to people who made one choice over another? Why is one group punished for making good choices? I don't choose my family and its inheritance; but I can choose what profession I'm in. (Also, "free" means "taxpayer funded.")
What, you think it isn't? Do you think there are so many constraints on our free will we're destined to stay in one lane, forever? Calvin wasn't as myopic as you are. You must hail from the "woe is me, I can't change my life because I don't get it easy" camp.
Exactly. How do I look my tradie mates in the eye and tell them I deserve this when they work hard for their money? How does someone with a degree in vegan feminist literature studies do the same thing? Vote grabbers gonna grab.
When I started my tertiary studies, they were "free". I only had to pay HECS for my final semester.
When it started, the fees were fairly reasonable and could be justified by making the people who will benefit from a Degree pay their way.
However, the University sector is now a huge government funded and controlled monstrosity. Mid level jobs that 30 years ago required a High School education now need a Degree. Think Nursing, Policing and Accounting.
Young people are being lumbered with a massive HECS debt and it is affecting their ability to get a home loan now - and with house prices ridiculously high the next generation will be renters.
So, good luck to these students getting a 20% reduction in their massively overpriced study costs. Remember, it's not a free market.
As a comparison, if your neighbours won the lottery would you cry "not fair" as you missed out?
How about when your friend gets a big inheritance and you don't? - also unfair?
You're conflating individual exigent circumstances with blanket government policy. Why should taxpayer money - which is expropriated from our earnings - be redirected to people who made one choice over another? Why is one group punished for making good choices? I don't choose my family and its inheritance; but I can choose what profession I'm in. (Also, "free" means "taxpayer funded.")
To be so sheltered to believe this is a matter of making good choices. What a charmed life, Tom.
What, you think it isn't? Do you think there are so many constraints on our free will we're destined to stay in one lane, forever? Calvin wasn't as myopic as you are. You must hail from the "woe is me, I can't change my life because I don't get it easy" camp.
I'm sure I'm more accomplished than you are. Your ignorance to how the world works is astonishing.
Is your cock bigger too? Grow up.
The way you’re acting whose isn’t bigger
Exactly. How do I look my tradie mates in the eye and tell them I deserve this when they work hard for their money? How does someone with a degree in vegan feminist literature studies do the same thing? Vote grabbers gonna grab.