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Australia's conservative government announced plans Friday to double university fees for humanities students, in a bid to push people into more useful, "job-relevant" courses like maths and science.
Under the proposal—which critics panned as an "ideological assault"—the cost of degrees like history or cultural studies will rise up to 113 percent to around US$29,000, while other courses such as nursing and information technology will become cheaper.
Education Minister Dan Tehan—an arts graduate with two advanced degrees in international relations—said the government wanted to corral young people towards "jobs of the future" to boost the country's economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
"If you are wanting to do philosophy, which will be great for your critical thinking, also think about doing IT," Tehan said.
The plan would help pay for an additional 39,000 university places by 2023 and for cost cuts for courses like science, agriculture, maths and languages.
[...] "I'm an arts graduate and so is the minister for education so I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that we're completely unemployable," said opposition lawmaker Tanya Plibersek.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @06:16AM (4 children)
"Affirmative action" is now a tail wagging the dog. It was supposed to temporarily correct for injustices that existed before affirmative action was put into place, but it will never accomplish its stated goal now because it is treating symptoms, not causes. When people tell young black kids that they will never make it, they do not take school seriously, they bully kids that do, and when they become adults, they create a pattern of disproportionately low representation in the workforce, especially positions that require higher education. As long as this happens, no amount of affirmative action will fix things. In fact, it undermines the credibility of anyone who advocates for fair treatment. For some reason, fixing the causes of social imbalances has been made taboo by the left. Maybe because it discredits some of their cherished ideas.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 22 2020, @01:25PM (2 children)
I'm not sure where that last sentence comes from, as I am left (by US standards; by civilized world standards I am a boring old centrist...you know, like that Sanders guy?) and definitely in favor of fixing the underlying issues. More than once I've compared affirmative action to a bandage for a tumor, with the rider that while a bandage is better than nothing, it doesn't cure the cancer, and any doctor who thinks a bandage is a cancer cure is a quack. AA has become pseudo-liberal white-guilt bullshit.
MLK Jr. warned about this, in a more general form, when he stated that the "white moderate" was in some ways a worse enemy than a direct racist, that the "negative peace" they were looking for was inherently selfish and had nothing to do with actual racial justice.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @05:18PM (1 child)
It wasn't MLK... it was Malcolm X
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @11:49PM
MLK, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @07:51PM
It's not "people telling black kids they'll never make it." Maybe in the past teachers may have done, that but not anymore. Now, they are coddled and the whole class is held back for them. It's their own goddamn people who tell them that learning is being an Uncle Tom. It's their inferior culture and intellect that holds them back. The ones that succeed are the ones who are smart enough to realize that White culture is superior, in this respect at least, and adopt it, despite the flak they catch from their own.
Are you really so ignorant, or you just prefer the anti-white lie?