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Arts vs Science? The Job-Ready Graduates package and beyond
The higher education sector in Australia has been through a rapid cycle of change and disruption over the past two years, starting with a shift in the way university places are funded.
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The analysis is correct. Why some domains of study [eg medieval literature?] may remain exclusively in the domain of HASS, others clearly don’t. The big one needing interdisciplinary skills and expertise being climate change and policy [where HASS could do much more]. Safe to say, however, a number of degrees at Australian universities sneak in material from HASS into STEM, or vice versa, by offering different configurations and class/subject choices within their degrees that are now priced differently by the Federal government. Interesting that today the PM extolled ‘capitalism’ as the solution to our emissions reductions, while his government has initiated a rise in the costs of degrees where understanding capitalism and how it operates will occur [HASS]! If getting out of a crisis will require capitalist solutions, STEM knowledge will clearly be inadequate, and so why over-price knowledge in those areas?