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Few redeeming features to our universities

Nine years of Coalition failure

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

9 April 2022

9:00 AM

Here’s how an American commentator recently described the tertiary education sector: ‘The modern university is a political madrassa married to a trade school married to a hedge fund married to a sports team married to an adult day care center married to a visa law firm.’ Ouch! Now as it happens, this pithy description of today’s universities cannot be fully applied here in Australia.

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