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Time to cull this plague of dunces

The proposed university changes will discourage many students from signing up. Good.

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

Labor is probably right in saying that fee deregulation will reduce the number of students attending university. One certainly hopes so. Undergraduate study in Australia is so affordable and accessible that it is packed to bursting with illiterates and dilettantes, and higher education is suffering as a result. Bring on the cull.

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