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With the outcome of the High Court appeal in Peter Ridd’s case highly uncertain, the government seems to have an almost touching faith in the capacity of its model code of conduct to protect academic freedom.
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Hopefully many “universities” will disappear with the loss of the overseas students. Why so much money is wasted on useless “degrees” amazes me.
Don’t have a subscription so can’t read it. Might see if it pops up on Facebook?
economic principle of authority: “He who pays the piper calls the tune.”
college faculties wants immunity from control by the outside agents who pay the university’s bills.
Nothing scares the Left more than a threat to cut their funding by members of the non-Left.
The correct strategy is replacement, not capture.
In the same year that she persecuted Peter Ridd, the government gave an AO to the person who ran that university.
the marxists in the bureaucracy will resort to that old time lefty favourite, market intervention to keep their comrades on the payroll
Universities are beyond reform and detrimental to the mental well-being of most those who attend them. As I have remarked before, a dose of tertiary syphilis is probably less damaging to the brain than one of tertiary eductaion.