Where I left off ...

Alright, so my first post in a while and after re-reading it a couple of times I realised that in my true style I started off writing/thinking about one thing, then went off on a bit of a tangent and then finished on a different point to both the original and the tangent. 

If you ask Zac Martin, who I am working on the L'Oreal Brandstorm competition with, he will tell you that I always jump in at random points and bring something up that we were talking about an hour prior, or even something completely irrlevent to what we are talking about, and might have absolutely nothing to do with anything. Kind of like what I am doing now.

This is probably not a good thing to do with blogging as I suppose each post should have a point, generally speaking, and if I keep up with the way I talk/act, it will mean each post will make absolutely no sense to anyone .. except maybe me, although even that isn't a given.

Already I was going to have a post explaining the main point of my previous one, but instead went off and wrote about how I write ... 

A Students Perspective

As all 3 of you who read this blog are aware, I attend Monash University. I did so because a) I wanted to do a marketing degree, and b) it is one of the top universities in the country.

I would say that 83% of students, if asked what their main motivation is for attending university, would say "to be able to get a better job" or something of the equivalent.

Herein lies the issue with tertiary education in Australia. Students attend Uni because they want to get a better job, yet almost everyone who I have spoken to who has completed their degree and are now working in that field, say that 90% of what they learnt at uni is irrelevant and they haven't used it once. Of course this is quite a big generalisation and extremely broad, as they might be using Maslow's hierarchy (the only thing I can remember from first year Management, but I will get onto that in another post), but will not specifically say as such, they might just be using the theory subconsciously.

Anywho, back on point, students believe that going to univeristy will put them in good stead to get a better job, and whilst that is true, it provides absolutely no training for students to be able to have the job, it simply gives them a piece of paper that says they have managed to get greater then 50% in at least 24 subjects.

Universities on the other hand KNOW that their main priority is not the education, but the research. Therein lies the major issue.

There is a massive difference between what students believe University is about, and what the Uni's think they are about.