I've heard that certain courses at UWS are also allowing students to enrol in a course if they pay additional fees in lieu of gaining the UAI cut off mark to get into the course, which - again from what I'm hearing from some students there - is "dumbing down" the course and university. (-_-)Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
The entire point of having a UAI cut off is to ensure that students are capable of doing the course, demonstrated by prior academic achievement. Paying extra cash doesn't make you smarter! I could understand a university maybe making allowances for a student who missed the UAI cut off and made an appeal on special grounds, and in that case maybe the university were to offer them a chance to academically prove themselves capable before then allowing them to enrol in the actual course of choice. Say for example, you missed out on the required UAI for medicine, but maybe you come from a disadvantaged background - so you made an appeal. I could understand if the university allowed you to do first year Bachelor of Science (biochem major) demanding a credit average, after which they would then allow the student to enrol into 1st year med - because then the student would have academically proven themselves.
But money?! Academically speaking that proves squat. (-_-) And from what I'm hearing, a lot of tutorials are increasingly getting bogged down with students who waste everyone else's time with simple questions or comments that doesn't serve to further the discussion of the tut topic - questions that these students are asking because they consistently fail to understand lectures, texts etc. In effect, these sub-standard students are wasting everyone else's time and money.
P.S.: Speaking of UWS, these individual UWS main campuses really need to become separate universities or colleges. The idea of a university whose main campuses cover side a wide area from Richmond to Macarthur is a joke. I know a law student who enrolled at UWS Parramatta because she lives near Parramatta and wanted to study somewhere close to home. Her course has now been moved to the Macarthur campus this year which means that she now has to travel from home all the way to Campbelltown each day! What a joke! All other universities have their primary campus located in/around the same locale... UWS, as a supposed single university, is far too spread out, especially if they're planning on running the same course across different campuses.
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