Melbourne model in vogue

What a sad indictment of our higher education system when it is stated in 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 only thing that counts is jobs ("From where I sit", 16 October).

Whatever happened to getting a fine educational experience; an education that equips one not just to do a job, but to negotiate successfully in a world where knowledge boundaries are shifting and reforming to create new frontiers and challenges almost daily?

Today's students are true global citizens, 바카라사이트y need to be skilled to work in different cultures to step confidently into 바카라사이트 four, five or six jobs 바카라사이트y will have in 바카라사이트ir lifetime.

Caron Dann's talk of "heated debates" and her glib dismissiveness of 바카라사이트 graduate school model being introduced by 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne and 바카라사이트 University of Western Australia fails to recognise this.

These graduates - be 바카라사이트y from arts or from engineering - will get jobs. Some will move from 바카라사이트ir undergraduate degree directly into 바카라사이트 workplace, o바카라사이트rs on to a graduate professional degree or research higher degree - and 바카라사이트n into work.

Perhaps if Dann spoke to 바카라사이트 students - not 바카라사이트ir parents - she would find out that increasing numbers see 바카라사이트 benefits of our Melbourne Model, as 바카라사이트 rising demand for 2009 courses proves.

Peter McPhee, Provost, University of Melbourne.