Outgoing University of Wollongong academic, Dr Anthony Ashbol, has taken aim at the “corrupted corporatisation” of Australia’s universities, which have turned into degree factories:
“I suppose the biggest change for me as a teacher is the expanding class sizes and in particularly tutorials because when I started at the University of Wollongong, small tutorials were the norm and you really got to know your students in quite a solid way.
“All that has disappeared as tutorial sizes have grown to now be between 20 and 30, and therefor the distance between staff and students has grown…