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Sydney Morning Herald
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Morrison government wanted to divert students from arts degrees. The result is all ancient Greek to me
A year ago, as a year 12 student trying to decide what degree to pursue, I wrote a piece for this masthead about how the Job-ready Graduates scheme, introduced by the Morrison government in 2021, was deliberately diverting students away from arts degrees by slugging them with a higher fee increase than almost any other degree. I did end up choosing arts. But what I didn't realise was that the scheme would continue to push me away from studying areas I'm passionate about, through the bizarre cost discrepancies between different arts subjects. Take my semester 1 subjects: literature and French were each $578. Creative writing and political theory were $2124 each. I was shocked when I received that first fee statement. My choice of study area would determine whether I paid about $2000 for a single subject or an entire semester. My whole degree could cost anywhere between $14,000 and $50,000. And I couldn't understand the rationale behind these disparities. If, as it professed to do, the scheme's pricing system aimed to incentivise 'vocational' study areas, why were literature graduates considered four times more employable than politics students? When I investigated further, I found the discrepancies between the cost of arts subjects even more perplexing. 'Indigenous Australian art histories' is twice as expensive as 'Art history: Australian art'. 'Aboriginal writing' is double the price of 'the Australian imaginary'. First Nations voices and history were long overlooked in university settings – why would these subjects be priced more prohibitively? Whether there's an agenda there or not, the average arts student, in choosing between these two art history or literature subjects, would almost certainly be influenced by the significant price difference. I would be. Likewise, gender studies sits within the highest price bracket, costing $2124 per subject. Amid a domestic violence epidemic and a rising wave of youth misogyny, students who attempt to understand the nature and history of gender-based discrimination are slapped with a financial penalty. And if the rationale behind this is employability, it's hard to argue that the high fees reflect the supposedly non-vocational nature of this study area, when Latin sits at the opposite end of the fee spectrum. In fact, any argument that arts subject prices are determined by their vocational value seems void when you compare the prices of psychology and media with ancient Greek.
The Age
14 hours ago
- Politics
- The Age
The Morrison government wanted to divert students from arts degrees. The result is all ancient Greek to me
A year ago, as a year 12 student trying to decide what degree to pursue, I wrote a piece for this masthead about how the Job-ready Graduates scheme, introduced by the Morrison government in 2021, was deliberately diverting students away from arts degrees by slugging them with a higher fee increase than almost any other degree. I did end up choosing arts. But what I didn't realise was that the scheme would continue to push me away from studying areas I'm passionate about, through the bizarre cost discrepancies between different arts subjects. Take my semester 1 subjects: literature and French were each $578. Creative writing and political theory were $2124 each. I was shocked when I received that first fee statement. My choice of study area would determine whether I paid about $2000 for a single subject or an entire semester. My whole degree could cost anywhere between $14,000 and $50,000. And I couldn't understand the rationale behind these disparities. If, as it professed to do, the scheme's pricing system aimed to incentivise 'vocational' study areas, why were literature graduates considered four times more employable than politics students? When I investigated further, I found the discrepancies between the cost of arts subjects even more perplexing. 'Indigenous Australian art histories' is twice as expensive as 'Art history: Australian art'. 'Aboriginal writing' is double the price of 'the Australian imaginary'. First Nations voices and history were long overlooked in university settings – why would these subjects be priced more prohibitively? Whether there's an agenda there or not, the average arts student, in choosing between these two art history or literature subjects, would almost certainly be influenced by the significant price difference. I would be. Likewise, gender studies sits within the highest price bracket, costing $2124 per subject. Amid a domestic violence epidemic and a rising wave of youth misogyny, students who attempt to understand the nature and history of gender-based discrimination are slapped with a financial penalty. And if the rationale behind this is employability, it's hard to argue that the high fees reflect the supposedly non-vocational nature of this study area, when Latin sits at the opposite end of the fee spectrum. In fact, any argument that arts subject prices are determined by their vocational value seems void when you compare the prices of psychology and media with ancient Greek.
Times
17-07-2025
- Business
- Times
Junior doctors and dentists earn £10,000 more than other graduates
Medicine and dentistry graduates earn nearly £10,000 more than the average university leaver after 15 months, figures show. The average salary for those in full-time paid employment who graduated in 2023 was £28,500, up from £27,500 the year before. Science graduates had an average salary of £29,500, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa). The annual survey named medicine and dentistry as the most lucrative degree subjects. Graduates in those fields recorded the highest average salary, at £37,900. The lowest was for graduates from media, journalism and communication subjects, at almost £25,000. Fewer new graduates are in full-time employment or full-time further study than the year before, the figures show. Slightly more are unemployed than in the previous year's cohort. Female graduates were less likely to be unemployed than male graduates but more likely to be in part-time employment. Among graduates in full-time employment, more men than women reported earning salaries over £33,000. • British doctors chasing jobs will get priority over foreigners Overall, 59 per cent of graduates from 2023 were in full-time employment 15 months after leaving, compared with 61 per cent in 2022 and 2021, but higher than the years immediately pre-pandemic. Five per cent were in full-time further study, down from 6 per cent the year before. Six per cent of graduates were unemployed, up from 5 per cent the year before. Similar numbers in both years were travelling, caring for someone, retired, doing voluntary work or working part-time. Of British graduates working in the UK, 76 per cent were in high-skilled jobs (82 per cent of science graduates and 72 per cent of others). This ranged from 97 per cent of medicine and dentistry graduates to 49 per cent of those who had studied agriculture or food-related courses. Ten per cent of all employed graduates were in low-skilled work and another 5 per cent in elementary occupations, those involving simple and routine tasks. A further six per cent were engaged in administrative or secretarial jobs and 5 per cent in sales and customer service. Most respondents felt their current 'activity' was meaningful and 74 per cent said it fitted with their future plans. Only 65 per cent said that they were using what they had learnt during their studies. More than 358,045 graduates provided usable responses to the agency for its annual graduate outcomes survey. • A thousand applications to get a job: the graduate grind Charlie Ball, head of labour market intelligence at the Jisc, which provides technology advice to universities, said: 'Since 2022, the job market has been flat. There's a small trough at the end of 2024, around the time this graduate cohort was surveyed. So we'd expect the outcomes to be slightly, but not inordinately, worse than the last cohort.' Eighty-eight per cent of graduates were in work or study, down from 89 per cent the previous year and 90 per cent in 2021, which Ball described as 'disappointing but not a sign of a significant labour market downturn'. He added: 'You would expect a slight rise in postgraduate study rates. This is generally counter-cyclical, in that it goes up as the graduate labour market dips. This doesn't seem to have really happened this time around, possibly because graduates don't themselves perceive the jobs market to have got notably worse.' Medicine and dentistry £37,924 Veterinary science £33,750 Engineering and technology £31,975 Mathematical sciences £31,450 Computing £30,998 Media, journalism and communications £24,925 Design, creative and performing arts £24,993 Psychology £24,988 Law £25,305 Biological and sports science £25,988
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Education Accolades
Jul. 8—University of Wisconsin-River Falls Spring 2025 Dean's List Adams Katie Thome, Marketing Communications Austin Emily Curtis, Comm Sciences and Disorders Kallie Smeby, Accounting Blooming Prairie Emily Kubicek, Biology Sam Pirkl, Health & Human Performance Sophie Thomas, Elementary Education Dexter Luke Speer, Marketing Grand Meadow Laney Anderson, Animal Science Tyler Reid, Agricultural Business Hayfield Aidan Nelson, Management Isaac Nelson, Health & Human Performance, Pre-Professional LeRoy Willow Knode, Accounting Racine Jayce Cast, Environmental Science Rose Creek Connor Edland, Health & Human Performance Taopi Samuel Boe, Engineering Technology University of Wisconsin-River Falls Spring 2026 Graduates Austin Emily Curtis, BS, Comm Sciences and Disorders, Summa Cum Laude Greta Sunde, MS, Comm Sciences and Disorders Blooming Prairie Emily Kubicek, BS, Biology, Cum Laude Sam Pirkl, BS, Health & Human Performance, Magna Cum Laude Dexter Luke Speer, BS, Marketing, Senior Merit Maggie Streightiff, MSE, School Psychology Grand Meadow Laney Anderson, BS, Animal Science, Summa Cum Laude Evan Oehlke, BS, Agricultural Business, Senior Merit Saginaw Valley State University Spring 2026 Dean's List Austin Megan Thiravong
South China Morning Post
12-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Trump seems to reverse course on Chinese students in US, saying he's in favour of them
US President Donald Trump reiterated his support for Chinese students in America on Thursday and pledged to help them remain in the country after graduation, distancing himself from initiatives that his administration has announced to limit or block international students because of national security concerns. Advertisement 'I've always been strongly in favour of it. I think it's a great thing,' Trump said on Thursday, referring to Chinese nationals seeking to study in the US. 'It's also good for our schools. It's good for our country.' Trump added that he was in favour of 'letting them stay' and being hired by American companies. 'I'm all for making sure that people like that can go to work for all of our great companies,' he said. Advertisement If not allowed to remain in the US, he noted, such graduates and entrepreneurs would return to their countries and starting their businesses there.
