A former pro vice chancellor at Murdoch University has warned about the risk of turning Australia’s universities into “education factories” that graduate people with poor skills and critical capability who could be easily influenced by the pervasive “woke culture.”
Gabriel Moens, who is also an emeritus professor of law at University of Queensland, pointed out that the current education policy, which focuses on expanding universities and TAFE by increasing funding, has “taken the process of democratisation too far.”
The concern was raised after Labor on April 18 proposed a $1.2 billion investment in education which will create 20,000 additional places at universities and provide free TAFE (Technical and Further Education) courses.
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