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Flat White

A tertiary tragedy

Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility

2 November 2022

12:00 PM

2 November 2022

12:00 PM

Of the assorted areas of life that have deteriorated over the neoliberal era – energy costs, health, and trust in institutions – has there been a greater erosion in esteem than that of higher education? The state of the Australian academy evokes Oscar Wilde’s refrain that’s all that’s now known is ‘the price of everything and the value of nothing’.

This wasn’t always the case.

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