Category: ATAR

Universities’ Push for Quantity Over Quality of Students Sees Higher Failure Rates Than Ever

Financial incentives are encouraging Australian universities to admit more and more high school graduates that receive low Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks (ATAR) or use alternative admission schemes, resulting in a soaring number of dropouts, a new report found. While there are calls to scrap ATAR entirely, the Centre of Independent Studies argues that greater, not…


Is ATAR an Accurate Assessment for Admission to Education Degrees?

Commentary Back in April 2021, I observed: “The sad reality is that many Australians cannot properly spell, write, or read” and that this malaise is compounded by an inability to correctly apply the rules of grammar. I also noted that “very few students are exposed to the great books of Western civilisation but instead are required…