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Reply #75 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 4:45pm

DEI education is a failure

Vanderbilt to end ‘inherently exclusionary’ honors program

In his research, [sociology professor, Andrew] Cognard-Black… reported many college honours programmes do not have “proportional representation” of minority students, especially blacks and Hispanics, compared to the demographics of their student bodies.

Mebbe black and Hispanic do not value education in the same proportion as other demographics. Why IS that?

And to alleviate that difference of valuing " problematic academic rigour", exceptional students will now be obliged to mingle with those less academically inclined, and offered an education “accessible to all,” one “open to the voices of divergent experiences.”

Can't have hierarchies of excellence. It's 'exclusionary'.

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Reply #77 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:53pm

Gordon wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:40pm:

Firstborn got her ATAR results back while we're on holidays, her score will get her into a double degree in law and economics at any uni she decided. So the decision is on for Sydney Uni, ANU or Melbs.

Don't let her go to uni and sleep in the same room as she did in primary school.

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Reply #78 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:00pm

Frank wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:53pm:

Gordon wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:40pm:

Firstborn got her ATAR results back while we're on holidays, her score will get her into a double degree in law and economics at any uni she decided. So the decision is on for Sydney Uni, ANU or Melbs.

Don't let her go to uni and sleep in the same room as she did in primary school.

I like that!
We're in a new house but she's also such a mature young lady now. Has very little interest in frivolous crap like many her age.

I'd like her to go to ANU for a year then maybe transfer to Sydney and then throw a year overseas exchange into the mix, that or start at Sydney because she haa some incredible job offers she can take advantage of if she stays local, then an overseas exchange.

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Reply #79 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:04pm

[quote author=Gordon link=1698982527/76#76 date=1734680449]Firstborn got her ATAR results back while we're on holidays, her score will get her into a double degree in law and economics at any uni she decided. So the decision is on for Sydney Uni, ANU or Melbs. [/quote]

We had a debate on medicine or law a few years ago.

Doctors pay medical indemnity insurance lawyers collect the payouts.

If she doesn't want to represent criminals she could work for the prosecution.

Sydney Uni was good once upon a time it has become a woke cesspit

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Reply #80 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:10pm

[quote author=Baronvonrort link=1698982527/79#79 date=1734681880][quote author=Gordon link=1698982527/76#76 date=1734680449]Firstborn got her ATAR results back while we're on holidays, her score will get her into a double degree in law and economics at any uni she decided. So the decision is on for Sydney Uni, ANU or Melbs. [/quote]

We had a debate on medicine or law a few years ago.

Doctors pay medical indemnity insurance lawyers collect the payouts.

If she doesn't want to represent criminals she could work for the prosecution.

Sydney Uni was good once upon a time it has become a woke cesspit
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Her real interest is in economics, and she just about got a perfect score in that subject. According her she's doing the double degree to ensure employability, has zero interest in criminal law.

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Reply #82 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:23pm

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:17pm:

Economics is good a friends daughter has worked in New York and London along with major role in one of our banks.

She is raking it in.

The good thing is, it's not just a choice but her passion and first choice. Earlier in the year Sydney Uni sent out a test paper to any school that wanted to participate, called it EconomicsOlympiad, she got a high distinction and won a place to attend the monthly RBA governors speech and a lunch at a fancy hotel.

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Baronvonrort Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 18463 Gender:	Re: Education is a Failure! Reply #83 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:30pm Tell her she will work for over 40 years before she retires so best to work in a field she finds interesting. If you like your job it makes life easier.
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Reply #84 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:51pm

mothra wrote on May 15^th, 2024 at 7:36am:

Are you not aware of the thread you're in?

I'm not the one crying over educational standards. I'm pretty much in synch with current findings across the board.

it's you lot on here who wail, gnash your dentures and threaten us with you zimmer frames all day, every day.

'Course you are, did-ums - it's a direct outcome of the education system ..... you are so funny at times...

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 84496 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Education is a Failure! Reply #85 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:53pm UnSubRocky wrote on May 15^th, 2024 at 2:33pm: Bias_2012 wrote on May 14^th, 2024 at 11:49am: "while male" LoL Seems like a bit of male bashing going on from Marla. Just another aspect of Clone House here... by their utterances shall ye know them!!
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Reply #86 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:58pm

Well ... Sydney hates Jews and is ruled by the feminists ..... ANU hates everyone who isn't Black, Pallie or a running dog ... ..... Melb is a sisified group of foreign job circle-jerkers who know everything in the traditional fashion of the unknowing....

All are pretty much marked for soon-to-be restructuring...

It's a hard call...... my daughter holds the record for knocking back NIDA - and boy preferred to be a chef.

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Reply #87 - Dec 20^th, 2024 at 7:38pm

Gordon wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 6:00pm:

Frank wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:53pm:

Gordon wrote on Dec 20^th, 2024 at 5:40pm:

Firstborn got her ATAR results back while we're on holidays, her score will get her into a double degree in law and economics at any uni she decided. So the decision is on for Sydney Uni, ANU or Melbs.

Don't let her go to uni and sleep in the same room as she did in primary school.

I like that!
We're in a new house but she's also such a mature young lady now. Has very little interest in frivolous crap like many her age.

I'd like her to go to ANU for a year then maybe transfer to Sydney and then throw a year overseas exchange into the mix, that or start at Sydney because she haa some incredible job offers she can take advantage of if she stays local, then an overseas exchange.

Do not commute to uni from home. Childhood must be left behind.
Exchange overseas is essential.
Group of 8 unis have good overseas partners but other unis have good ones too. Best in disipline is important.
There is no real point in changing Australian universities half way through unless something unknown at the start becomes known.

I have a son at ANU doing mathematics. He likes it although it is as pc as the rest.

Law is the new/old Arts degree. It's the last of the rigorous - up to a point - humanities degrees. It is also one of the original degrees universities were set up for in the middle ages. It is a crowded field.

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