"Victoria has made a pitch to absent international students to return," writes Tom Worthington. He suggests "this is domed to failure, and counterproductive" because it "signals to potential students that Australia's higher education system is inflexible, unwilling to cater to student's needs, and that our academics don't understand that things have changed." I'm not sure how true this is, but it's somewhat true, and probably going to become more true over time as people find they miss the good things about being online. Where is it not true? Well, in the intangibles - it's a great experience to travel to another country for a few months or years, even if this does not show up on the transcripts. Seeing how things really are, as compared to what you had previously believed, leads you to reassess the state of your knowledge and how you learn generally.
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