John Quiggin
Queen 1066
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines1. The obvious. Cost.
In Australia post secondary, non-unversity education (vocational but not only) was done by an institution called #TAFE the cost was minimal. Then neo-libs came to power and suddenly everything was for profit. Where subjects were $25 per semester they were now $500. Nice if your work pays for it, but if you're changing professions or under-employed, your screwed.
2. Remote course delivery. Outside of few legitimate cases, video course delivery is shit, absolute crap.
If you're neuro-spicy, you have to be fully, 100% focused on the screen, which is extremely exhausting. Plus, it kills socialisation.
I spend as much time making friends in college as I did studying.
3. Unpopular opinion.
Once you get older, cognitive decline is a thing.
AI helps me do shit I could only do in my youth.
Yet many folks look at AI as if it's Satan incarnate.
For older folks, AI is a cognitive wheelchair.
EndemicEarthlingGough #Whitlam, Australian PM 1972–75:
• free universal healthcare
• end of White Australia policy
• Racial Discrimination Act
• abolished university fees
• removed tax on contraception
• no-fault divorce
• equal pay for women
• extended maternity leave and support for single mothers
• abolition of conscription
• abolition of death penalty
• Aboriginal #LandRights and the start of #LandBack
• established Legal Aid and Aboriginal legal services
• doubled arts funding: established SBS, National Gallery, Australia Council for the Arts, National Film and Television School
• withdrew ADF from #Vietnam
• withdrew support for apartheid #SouthAfrica
• first Western leader to visit #China after WWII; re-established diplomatic relations
• independence for #PNG
• democratising the electoral system through One-Vote-One-Value
• first federal legislation on human rights, environment and heritage
• cut #tariffs
• Trade Practices Commission
• Law Reform Commission
• National Parks & Wildlife Service
• Australia Film Commission
• Australia Council
• Consumer Affairs Commission
• Technical and Further Education Commission #TAFE
• abolished appeals to the (UK) Privy Council
• accelerated rollout of sewerage system to disadvantaged communities
• sought to close #PineGap
All this in under three years. #Auspol
Went to my old college campus to see if I can pick up a PT instructor gig again...
... EVERYTHING IS ONLINE!!!
What a sad time to be a student...
...no class contact, no bar studies, no.hamgoung out in the forum when the hospital folks were practicing their cocktails...
erstwhileIf I was a purchasing or finance officer with a finance delegation, in the Australian Education sector,, there is no way I'd buy equipment from toolsforshcools.com.au .. ever.
It seems the google search web scraper has revealed a $2000 mark up for a lathe compared to if Joe public buys the exact same item from it's importer here in Australia retail.
I'd almost bet the one being sold to education does not have all the bells and whistles either (accessories, DRO, etc..)
If you're a #Teacher, suggest you pass this on to your Manual Arts colleagues, I'd rather my Tax dollars did not go to a supplier like this . .
These same clowns were peddling Raspberry Pi's, 4b boards, for $100 more than standard retail (and that was before the pi shortage..)
#TAFE or #UNI or #School
#Graft #Greed #Grifters #ThievingFucks . .
skuaHearing of troubles in #WesternAustralia's trades #Appenticeship scheme.
Seems #WA #TAFE has failed to deliver the required technical training content for a 3 year apprenticeship within the 3 year timeframe.
And has not notified the #ApprenticeshipBoard of this failing.
Only notified the apprentices after the board had told the apprentices that they'd completed theur apprenticeships.
And tried BS "failed to attend".
3 years of low pay for the apprentices.
Another?
David WakehamRE: Albo’s proposed YouTube ban.
I've studied & taught students from foundation to #Tafe to post-graduate. In diverse places, from homeschooling to Go8 universities. Not a single one has not involved at least one YouTube video.
Could it possibly be just another distraction to take focus off their irresponsible refusal to act on the results and recommendations of yet another senate inquiry?
#auspol #NoAgeBan #Education #EduSky🍎 #UDL #InclusiveEducation #Accessibility
John Wilson WSWS#Victorian #TAFE teachers hold fourth #Strike for pay increase and lower workload
Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers from 12 standalone TAFE colleges in Victoria held their fourth 24-hour strike since June on Thu and rallied outside their colleges or in front of the offices of state Labor members of parliament. The Australian Education Union (AEU) has allowed negotiations with the state Labor government to drag on for more than two years.
Peter Riley