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Australia Plans University Fees Hike to Deter Humanities Students

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 21 2020, @11:53PM   Printer-friendly

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 23 2020, @07:06AM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday June 23 2020, @07:06AM (#1011457) Journal

    There always is a first time for everything, mon ami!

    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203792834 [taylorfrancis.com]

    No post-structuralism or Deconstruction without a structuralist, promoting "social facts", in the first place, eh?

    Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], such as it is.

    Within sociology, his work has significantly influenced structuralism, or structural functionalism.[3][34] Scholars inspired by Durkheim include Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs, Célestin Bouglé, Gustave Belot, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Jean Piaget, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Clifford Geertz, Peter Berger, social reformer Patrick Hunout, and others.[3]

    More recently, Durkheim has influenced sociologists such as Steven Lukes, Robert N. Bellah, and Pierre Bourdieu.

    Quite the list of usual suspects, including Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, and Michel Foucault.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:20AM (#1011479)

    No collective without collectivism, Giovanni Gentile was indebted to the works of Marx and Hegel, eh?

    Thanks for clearing that up.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @01:16PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @01:16PM (#1011952) Journal

    Pfft. Please. They're all French

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    Washington DC delenda est.