Call to increase capacity | The Australian
This makes me so shitty… DESPITE the statistics quoted in the article they’re calling for not only more university places, but for the places to be allocated based on market demand. Because 17 years olds are great at chosing sensible careers? Because lower (50 -75) achievers aren’t getting their first preference in law or dentistry?
There’s very rarely a shortage of graduates in any field, there is MUCH more often oversupply. There are shortages of experienced professionals, and in certain population centres, and in certain government roles (because they pay less) and there always will be.
In some senses, it doesn’t really matter what degree you do. A good number of my friends, and my wife and myself, don’t work in areas directly related to our initial undergraduate degree. I don’t even work directly in the area of my PhD.
As for allocating places on market demand, it may be a bad way to do it, but it’s the least bad way. If places weren’t allocated based, in some way, on demand from students, what other sensible way would there be to allocate places?
