Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 13. June 11 1979

A New View on Education Cuts

A New View on Education Cuts

The Editor,

Maybe the $ situation would be helped by weeding out the thousands of students who are at universities because they couldn't think of anything else to do.

Perhaps all these time fillers could go out into the real world for a couple of years, earn a living digging drains or whatever, and think about among other things) if, then what they want to study and shy, ie. where will it lead? A B.A. or any other degree in filler subjects is not even a meal ticket any more..........unless you go and teach others so they can come and get their degrees like that so they can teach others so they can.....................

Fewer students, but who are on the average more highly motivated, would make much better use of what $ there is.

M. Robbie.