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A lot to learn about education
Tanya Plibersek
August 23, 2006
Extraits:
WHEN Brendan Nelson was minister for education, he would tell the story of a woman waiting at a bus stop outside a Queensland university who told him she didn't see why her tax dollars should be spent to subsidise the education of the students inside.
Presumably the story was allegorical, but his message was clear: education should be user-pays.
.....Yet education is one of the most important investments a country can make in the wellbeing of its citizens and long-term economic prosperity. The students benefit by preparing for better-paid, more interesting, more secure jobs....... Australia is the only OECD country to cut public investment in universities and TAFE. Since 1995 spending has fallen by 8 per cent. In contrast, the average increase in OECD countries is 38 per cent.
When asked in Parliament why the number of students completing year 12 then going to TAFE or university fell by 10 per cent between 2000 and 2004, the Prime Minister said it was because they were going out and getting jobs -nothing to worry about.
He missed two critical points. First, teenage unemployment is still about 20 per cent and as high as 40 per cent in some areas. Second, we need to fix the skills crisis. Unless school leavers undertake training, they are not going to make the economic contribution to their family income or the nation's wealth they are capable of.
BIS Shrapnel's chief economist warned recently that "the real, enduring problem is going to be the shortage of skilled labour". The Australian Industry Group's Heather Ridout has pointed out that 175,000 people are going to leave traditional trades over the next five years and only 70,000 are going to enter them.
The Government has massively increased skilled migration. Such a program will always be necessary and welcome, but it shouldn't become a substitute for training Australians. We need to give young Australians a secure future, and we should stop depriving poorer countries of the skilled workers they have invested slender education budgets to train.
Australia has accepted an extra 270,000 skilled migrants yet has turned 300,000 young Australians away from TAFE.
The Prime Minister defends full-fee degrees by saying that foreign students are allowed to buy their way into Australian universities, so why shouldn't Australians have the same right? (j'ai beau relire 15x cette phrase et la seule explication est que ce type a du boire 15 Crown Lager avant de sortir une phrase pareille a un journaliste).
That is the wrong question. The question is why can't those Australian students have government-subsidised (HECS) places? After all, the difference between foreign students and Australian students is the parents of Australian students have paid for the Australian education system through their taxes. Also, the overseas students will go home to work (voir plus bas). Australian students will mostly remain in Australia and contribute to our society and our tax system through their working lives.
Nelson should have told his mysterious friend that spending her taxes on an education to provide a secure future for her children was a wise investment, not simply an expense. If she had no children, Nelson could have told her that investing her tax dollars in TAFE and universities would mean there were enough nurses when she went to hospital, hairdressers to cut her hair and plumbers to fix her hot water system when it blew up. He should have told her that unless we take education seriously, we will lose the race for innovation, for international competitiveness.
Quel Patriotisme! Deja qu'il prefere importer ds la main d'oeuvre etrangere experimentee ou des overseas students plutot que former ses propres ressortissants, il n'hesite pas a aller piquer la main d'oeuvre et les devises des quelques familles riches de pays du tiers monde! En effet notre registered Tafe agent allait recruter des students jusqu'au
Bengladesh Quelle honte!
Mais tres smart quand meme. Pq? Contrairement a ce qui est ecrit, +-
20.000 etudiants obtiennent chaque annee la residence permanente. Il est estime qu' environ
50% des overseas students deposent un dossier d'immigration.
Pour l'annee 2002, il y avait plus de
145.000 *O.S inscrits ds les universites. Ce chiffre n'inclu donc pas les etudiants inscrits ds les TAFE(trade).
Si votre dossier n'est pas traite avant que le quota a ete atteint, Bye,byel'Australie! En effet, un overseas student doit deposer son dossier ds les 6 mois apres completion de ses etudes.
En plus du prix paye pour un dossier d'imi(+-5000$Aud avec un agent) s'ajoute a cela les school fees et bien sur les living expenses. Pour l'annee 2003,".... the total expenditure by students in Australia was
$5.1billion ..." *
Et puis, si finalement vous l'obtenez votre PR, vous serez
accuse de prendre le Job d'un Aussie. Un comble!
Une autre consequence possible est une recrudescence du racisme.
En plus d'avoir ete cree artificiellement en 1788, l'Australie en 2006 n'a tjs pas d'ame! Bravo Mr Howard.
En Sicile ou en Corse, on appelle ca : une mafia!
Ce type est un escroc et malheureusement, il continue tjs a sevir impunement.
Migrants et .......Australiens, je vous plains!
*source:Courier-Mail 10/2005