Dear friends and decision makers,
Why is Australia so afraid to expand its higher education sector? John Hewson’s The trap of student caps.
This is John Hewson, the dry, for God’s Sake!
The government policy, and policy for a long time, has been to create a culture-history warfare in the choice between international and domestic students, and in the process to run down Australian universities.
The global number of students pursuing tertiary education more than doubled in the last two decades. Measured by Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), global participation in tertiary education doubled from 19% to 40% between 2000 and 2020 students around the world. This is almost 3% of the total number of tertiary students.
Australia’s participation rate flags competitively against the global outlook, at best.
The statistics are manipulated in the perception. The definition of “a non-school qualification” is vocational or tertiary activity without the attention to the distribution of fields within higher education.
2023
Of people aged 15-74 years:63% had a non-school qualification
80% with a non-school qualification, and 58% without, were employed
85% who finished a non-school qualification in 2022 were employed in 2023.Of people aged 15-24 years:
61% were currently studying
8% were not engaged in any work or study.
and
2022
Of people aged 15-74:
63% had a non-school qualification.
79% with a non-school qualification, and 58% without, were employed.
85% who finished a non-school qualification in 2021 were employed in 2022.
Of those aged 15-24:
63% were currently studying.
8% were not engaged in any work or study.
We still have no idea of how well Australian citizens are getting a rounded education in the humanities and social science.
This is on top of the economic problem.
REFERENCES
Buch, Neville (2020). Economic Rationalism and University Course Pricing 1989-2020, Australian Policy and History Network.
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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