Cost of Education, Australia

In the news today. Govt taking money from Education. Specifically from the students. They'll have to pay more for tertiary education and they'll have to repay loans quicker, on smaller salaries.

This is all back to front.

This is not smart.  This is not 'educated'.

The point is to make education widespread,  is it not?

So the task is to find ways to do that.

i.e. find ways to diminish the cost of education.

To spread education to more people at less cost.

Not to leave costs as they are refuse to pay it or squeeze students or commit them to a poorer standard of living.

That's all upside down.

That the government can't see that, that the opposition can't see that and that apparently the media commentators can't see that is another indication of just how lost we are.


The government should be announcing progress on the program to find ways to spread education more readily,  cheaper, to everyone.

It'd seem obvious these days that the web would have something do with it, wouldn't it?

And there'd be analysis of current education to see which parts of it can perhaps be moved away from teachers and lecturers and face to face tuition and into the web perhaps - or other directions - a programme for printing certain materials, perhaps, widely available for free at public libraries?

What they're effectively announcing is reverse progress, no progress at all, going backwards, giving up.