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How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm?

  • Oct. 5th, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Roma
The forecast is grim, for both home and here.

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(Anonymous) wrote:
Oct. 5th, 2008 01:24 pm (UTC)
melb uni courses
ye gads! i had no idea this nonsense was afoot. wow! abolish creative arts? no. no double degrees? wow! at uni for more years? no. what will your ordinary aussie boy or girl do? serve in a diner for six or so years to save for the education for a proper career? i cant imagine. Catriona.
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[info]nonsequitania wrote:
Oct. 5th, 2008 09:48 pm (UTC)
Re: melb uni courses
Yup. They appear to have bet the university's shirt on the idea that folk will a) come for this sort of undergrad experience and b) stay for postgrad. I'm not at all sure about a), I fancy the university's convenient location and prestige from back when it was worth going to will last for a little while, until word gets around that is; but certainly no one is staying for postgrad. I know one person (One! Out of everyone I know) who is not planning to go elsewhere for their education. Staff and books are going, students follow. Monash enrolments are up on last year; guess why?!

It's not just the average boy or girl either; the ones with money can think of better places to spend their hard-earned too. Naturally they also want a decent education who are paying through the nose for it.

Oh yes, and remember the library hub experience? They are doing that with all of the libraries at the Parkville campus. Within two years, is the plan.
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[info]enname wrote:
Oct. 6th, 2008 05:10 am (UTC)
I just had a conversation with an ex student of mine regarding disability access. She is in a motorised scooter, and if needs be can use crutches, but did you realise the ERC now has no disability access? She can't even get through the gate alarm because they have made it too narrow, and scooters are narrower than most wheel chairs. The lift is too small for a wheel chair and only goes to the 1st floor anyway. She was over there making a very loud scene - what she has to do is email a librarian three days ahead so they can fetch the books for her, then get someone to get get them to come out and loan them. So much for 'wonderful new renovations.'

The Baillieu isn't much better either as she can't get into the lifts most of the time either as she takes up all the room, esp. if she has her crutches with her. Not to mention being unable to navigate down the stacks as they are often too narrow. For heaven's sakes.
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[info]nonsequitania wrote:
Oct. 6th, 2008 05:54 am (UTC)
Well yes. The Melbourne Model and the arts faculty meltdown may be considered separate subjects, as Peter McPhee somewhat disingenuously suggested (irrelevant. The point is, they are both in need of fixing) and the libraries getting rid of books is another thing, and disability access is another thing: but it could all have done with a bit of the time and money that have been spent on saturation advertising and painting the corridors. *snort*.

I hope the poor lady made a very loud scene not just to the librarians there (who probably couldn't/didn't do much) but to the vice-chancellor, the building supervisor and the current favourite sleeping partner, Property and Campus Services? All of which is time and energy she doesn't have to spare for this shit and shouldn't have to spend on it, of course. For heaven's sakes indeed.
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