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Kumara Republic's avatar

"Hulk who? Amber who?" would probably be the average response if you asked the average person who they were.

As for universities, the enshittification process is likely a side effect of them devolving from public goods (people go to uni because they want to) to perishable goods (people go to uni because they have no other choice in the job market).

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MARK SHEEHAN's avatar

Good point about how universities (and polytechs becoming universities) has created a job market over-supplied with graduates but in addition to that, a university these days is primarily a qualifications factory and is incentivised to recruit as many students as possible AND to ensure they pass. A situation that is not helped by having to cater for an increasing number of students who in 13 years of schooling have not developed adequate literacy or numeracy skills (let alone the confidence to think critically). I guess for me it is not just the oversupply of grads (a university education was seriously life-changing for me - it literally woke me up) but that too many of our grads are coming out of tertiary institutions without having developing the a rich knowledge-based understanding of the world.

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