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by cj 454 days ago
Are you describing the same further education provided to "regular" age college kids in Australia? If so, wow.

Although not surprising. My 19 y/o niece goes to a university in Florida and even though she lives on campus, she only has a dozen in person classes per semester. Nearly everything is still online. It's like they never undid covid.
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chris_wot 454 days ago
No, this isn't University (though that can be patchy). Under the Abbott government, he decided to gut TAFE (the government run Technical And Further Education) and put in a whole bunch of privately run VET colleges. They are almost universally awful and were designed to bring in overseas students who used it as a springboard for permanent residency.

The current government is doing a major crack down on them.

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an_aparallel 454 days ago
Its hortible...if the institutes conducted online classes like they had even an ounce of tech awareness (ie invested in a bunch of elgato gear + lighting) it might be excusable or tolerable. But tbh its a horrible format
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an_aparallel 454 days ago
Im describing TAFE, but a colleague at work who recently graduated in engineering at macq uni complained about understanding teachers which imo is the worst of the points i listed.
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