Australian university education predicted to decline amid job cuts and ballooning enrolments
by Naaman Zhou from Science | The Guardian on (#57BBF)
Early enrolments rise 37% in New South Wales and ACT for 2021, compared with the same time last year
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The quality of Australian university courses could drop as soon as the current semester, academics warn, as universities employ fewer staff to teach more students.
According to statistics provided to Guardian Australia, student enrolments have already started to rise - even while universities shed staff and billions of dollars of revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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