quackademic<p>Yay let’s cut teacher education & social sciences! We don’t need people with skills in critical thinking, who understand how power works & can see when we are being manipulated by institutions designed to enrich the few while screwing the many.</p><p>This will end well 🤦🏼♀️.</p><p>The pernicious funding model our governments are using for higher education & research has consequences that will last a very long time.</p><p>Whose interests are served here?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FundingModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FundingModel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SocialSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSciences</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/JobCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobCuts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/EnrichTheWealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnrichTheWealthy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ScrewThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScrewThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WeSeeYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeSeeYou</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/16/uts-academics-describe-culture-of-fear-as-enrolments-put-on-hold-for-nearly-a-fifth-of-courses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/aug/16/uts-academics-describe-culture-of-fear-as-enrolments-put-on-hold-for-nearly-a-fifth-of-courses?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>