My wife has been a lecturer in nursing for over 30 years.  She has seen it go down in value, driven primarily by money grubbing universities and of course the change from a hands-on teaching course to a degree course administered by instant PhDs under the reforms brought in by Dawkins.

A LADY said last night "elsewhere" that these days gender discrimination meant that men were handed all the back-breaking jobs that 'suited men' while the women rode in comfort in the air-conditioning etc.... right to the point.  A guy on the same "elsewhere" said that the entire thrust of our 'culture' these days was to demoralise men so they could not present any viable opposition to those who wormed their way into positions of 'power' in a social structure in which, in former years, they would be at the very bottom...... ...

Since 1989 in NSW the 'education' system has been bastardised to actively prevent boys/young men taking all the top spots  at school leaving time..... and to actively favour 'girls' approach to learning' far more than it ever was 'in favour' of boys.

You see the results today - with - you guessed it - what that learned lady said - the men being pushed down to the hard-scrabble and lower paid work etc and taken advantage of in every way to suit women, and the women being artificially pushed up and up and up ... and as the guy said - the men being actively beaten down by the power of the state.

You see - real people KNOW what is wrong - they simply lack the power personally to change it for the better, and they lack the 'inside running' to get any attention paid to the very real and dire things that are dragging the West down as we sleep ..... and they lack The Great And True Leader to actually set things in motion.

Make Australia Great Again!  Fix all the social science disasters.  Drain the billabongs and get rid of the crocodiles...   

Footnote:-  THIS year -instead of the endless parade of sweet young things filled with their own self-importance and headed for a lifetime of heartache and sitting in halls listening to the likes of Julia Gillard about how to be The Greatest (glurg) - the boys actually took a hell of a lot of the top spots!  And even worse - they weren't all by any stretch Indians and Chinese!!