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Heavily biased in favour of the English-speaking world. 2 of the 6 criteria are based on the number of international students/staff. A super-TAFE immigration factory would have a ranking advantage over a quality Asian university which mainly recruits locally. And Asian universities face a...

Not really. Going to USyd would improve your chances slightly, but even the sandstones are becoming little more than diploma mils. Nothing to agonise about.

Our government and business leaders often claim there's a shortage of science graduates, but it's not true. Our stone-age economy has little use for scientific knowledge. Unemployment rates are high for graduates in most strands. Already too many science graduates are "employed" to deliver...

Maybe, but it'll be a long time before graduate accountants need a PhD and research experience. That's how it is in science already. There may be a glut of commerce graduates, but there'll probably be a glut of jobs in the expanding bureaucracies too.

I had a short stint in a science degree, and my highly qualified lab tutors spent a fair bit of time bitching about not finding proper jobs. If you study science with the intention of becoming a white coat wearing scientist, your path won't be easy. Not surprising really, considering our low...

Unfortunately, you'll have alot of competition, because thousands of people have rushed into forensic science thinking they'll get a CSI job with sexy costars and a bling hummer. Universities have only been too happy to cash in.

Australia is becoming a banana republic. A few weeks ago, Australia's biggest solar cell factory announced it would close. You might be able to get a job as an environmental officer for a BHP or Rio Tinto, but otherwise you'll need to go overseas where the real science and innovation is.

It's unfortunate that QUT is downsizing the traditional humanities, while expanding its offering of trendy fad degrees. That's what happens when universities are run like corporations. Everything drops to the lowest common denominator. Getting bums on seats is the only consideration.

I've been to a few unis in Australia - "new age" and sandstone - and I have to say they're all approximately mediocre. There is no "best" or "worst". It's like asking what's the "best" public hospital. Government beaurocrats and social engineering ensures that everything is standardised. You pay...

International students are fine, so long as they can speak and write English. Australian universities need to decide whether they want to be respected institutions of higher learning, or PR factories selling McDegrees. At the moment, they seem to be the latter.

Prestigious unis in Australia? :confused: Is a McEducation™ at UNSW more prestigious than a McEducation™ at UWS?

Won't work here in Australia. Or unis are too interested in the "bums on seats" conveyor-belt education system. They want to get students in and out as quickly as possible, and they can't do that if most students live on campus. If anything, Australia is heading further in the opposite...

Most Chinese-made ballpoint pens clog up long before they are empty. Spend a little more on a Japanese brand like Pilot. They run smooth and don't clog.

Tafe is not necessarily for the dumb, nor is uni necessarily for the intelligent. I'd rather go to barber school than pay $50,000 for an applied basketweaving degree from one of our domestic degree mills / PR factories. Our unis' entry standards have fallen to the point where they'll welcome...

When I worked for Coles back in ~2004, the SDA was completely useless. I'd advise against joining, though you might get called a "freeloader". The SDA is far too close to the company, Coles must pay them kickbacks. I worked on checkout. My so-called union steward often pressured me to spend 15...

When I worked for Coles back in ~2004, the SDA was completely useless. I'd advise against joining, though you might get called a "freeloader". The SDA is far too close to the company, Coles must pay them kickbacks. I never once used their junk discount card. I worked on checkout. My so-called...

I don't follow. If a uni's ENTER cutoff is 56, that would mean they accept people with an ENTER as low as 56, right? That would be the consequence of low student demand.

A minimum ENTER of 56? :uhoh: This is a joke, right? That's the bottom 15% of the class.

Whoever made that list was smoking some good shit when he included the clergy.

99.9 is excessive and probably artificial, but it's logical for these "new age" courses to be more popular than the traditional sciences. Despite all the hoopla about a shortage of scientists, there's no shortage of unemployed science graduates. No normal person endures years of organic...