stacksatsio on Nostr: Matt Barrie in his keynote mentions that 20 years ago we got a lot of US students and ...

Matt Barrie in his keynote mentions that 20 years ago we got a lot of US students and they’ve pretty much completely disappeared:

quoting note1rv4…9slr

Matt Barrie has given a keynote based on his article, “Put another Aussie on the Barbie”.

If you want to understand why #AUStriches are fukt - this is it. There’s no way to sugarcoat it, no bright side to look upon, there’s going to be a lot of medicine to go down and we’re all out of sugar.

https://youtu.be/NGzBwfSFdyY note1z5e…q4xw

In fact I know 3 kids in the US now on college scholarships - the trend seems to have reversed.

The Unis have been rolling in cash building amazing facilities but the quality of education has fallen off a cliff. Very few courses worth Uni nowadays, none worth the HECS debt imho.