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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2020, @05:33PM
Reality is only a matter of subjective opinion in the hypothetical. The insistence in claiming access to hidden knowledge that nobody else can comprehend is the province of cult leaders and entirely at odds with observable reality where the bulk of humanities papers remain uncited. Sokal and many others have aptly demonstrated the lack of academic rigor within the hallowed circle jerks of postmodernist word salads championed by cerebral narcissists and outright pseudo-intellectual, Mensa-cramming buffoons such as yourself. Finally I offer you the confession you ceremoniously demanded, I believe you are full of shit. A subjective claim that is also objectively if metaphorically true.