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FUCK!!! Demand for University courses SOARS!!!
AppleXY:
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--- Quote ---Monash University got a record number of top picks, while Melbourne's first-preference position dropped after changes adopted under its US-style degree system.
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So... does it look likely that the uom's Commerce required ENTER is expected to fall from last yrs 95.6? I sure hope so! :D
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i hope too
:D
costargh:
UoM
--- Quote ---Arts is up seven per cent in first preferences and 24 per cent in total preferences, and Commerce, up five per cent first preferences and three percent total preferences.
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http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,6425.0.html
If they didn't increase places available for next year, it could POTENTIALLY lead to an increase in the ENTER req.
merlin:
:'(
Collin Li:
Sure, your intrinsic interest in the field racks up points on the 'benefits' side of your cost-benefit analysis, but let's be realistic here, so does salary. And if there's higher salaries in other fields, then it counts on the 'costs' side as an opportunity cost.
Yes, I am saying that people are thinking: "wow this skill can get me a good paying job - and right now's a good time to swap over, as my current workplace is getting screwed over by the credit crisis, so I'll study this!"
It's a process of creative destruction.
RD:
--- Quote from: costargh on October 25, 2008, 06:09:16 pm ---Hmm, no not really.
I mean to say that people tend to think they are passionate for something when the prestige and remuneration for their work increases. I think of it as such; if lawyers and coles shelf stackers had the same social standing and remuneration, then the incentive to work harder for your money (ie. being a lawyer) decreases because regardless of what job you do, you will have the same social standing and remuneration.
So to answer your question, now I kinda changed my mind. Sort of, but I don't think money is the only thing. I think when a high paying job is coupled with prestige or social desire, then passion starts to kick in.
Furthermore, I think people are taught from a young age (through various media) to look up to doctors and lawyers from a young age, thereby making people aspire to be like them. We aren't taught to aspire to be the guy working at the milkbar because he doesn't have a high social standing or from what we can see, a high income (although he may).
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Yeah I tend to agree on that.
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