Corona Virus

I certainly agree degree costs for locals are far too high, but that's a different issue to international students, who are paying more than twice as much as the locals for a degree.
I have paid my way through both undergraduate and masters degrees, as well as some vocational courses, while working fulltime, so I do know what you mean.
Incidentally, if local students can prove their degrees/courses are work-related, they may be able to claim some costs back at tax time, although not the actual course fees.
This can include travel and accommodation for study, a new laptop every three years, home office costs, purchase of books and software etc.
A good tax agent should be able to advise.

This is quite scary. [emoji15]

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Originally Posted by INter674

Uni is just too expensive for locals and most of the high cost is a product of uni's being able to rely in the past on international students paying over the top full fees. Pity this business model has collapsed..maybe rather than investing in real estate the uni's could reduce fees to locals and attract them like they used to do.

UTas is a good example of a business model fsr too dependant on one customer whilst at the same time it has invested millions in real estate with a view to building a city-based campus to serve and attract more OS students.

Vice Chancellors/Boards have lost sight of their community obligations and to a large extent they have shafted their staff and in many cases compromised standards to serve this corrupted business model.

I know of highly professional people who have left UTas because of the pandering to OS students who in some cases were able to study/graduate despite not speaking English or who were caught cheating but were allowed to stay enrolled. Staff pay and conditions have also been compromised as more and more money was directed to real estate and upper echelon pay and bonuses.

This sector needs to be investigated and reformed.

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He's right you know. About a year ago I had reason to check the Income for the University's Vice Chancellor of the Adelaide Uni.

Then I wondered wtf he/she did for that money?


Fair knocked me out of me chair it did. Don't recall the Salary/Stipend etc but it is easy enough to find this info out. Real Estate does appear to be somewhere near the top of their agenda here as well. My Granddaughter was able to get in to do Law & Arts after getting excellent results in Entrance but she has to pay back the HECS costs when she gets a full time job (which she now has)

This year she is on about 95 grand, one year out of Uni.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

This year she is on about 95 grand, one year out of Uni.

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thats good to hear. there are a lot of unemployed law graduates in SA. too many doing the course and not enough jobs. my cousin had to move to melb to get a law job.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

Wont kill you if taken as prescribed and monitored by doctors - remembering this is not an experimental drug and is already approved for a couple of aliments. The issue is people taking against the rules - eg taking too much, taking with preexisting conditions that preclude its use, lack of monitoring of any side effects.

But trials have so far not found it to be of any benefit.

Garry

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See if we can work out 'why?"

HCQ also acts as a zinc ionophore, that is, transports Zn INTO our cells. Seems "they" don't know that, or just as likely, KNOW it and refuse it....

Zinc is not a patented medication, therefore of "no" value for future sales.

Therefore will NOT be used in a trial with HCQ..... which will then 'fail' the trial.....

- Back to having another go with, say, Remdisivir (already failed trial....)

'follow the MONEY'

PS, Quercetin does the same job with zinc.... available as an OTC supplement (not patented by Big Pharma)
Zn also OTC at Chemist Warehouse. etc.

I reckon someone conned The Donald into HCQ... hoping / suspecting he'd take it up,,,,and do himself in. - Just another tin-hat theory...[bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by Ferret

You left out the obvious ones that compare on a per capita basis.

Regardless of whether you think Trump is a dickhead or not, whether they reacted fast enough or not, whether you like US gun culture or not, on a death / capita basis the US's past trajectory and it's current position is little different than most of it's contemporaries in Western Europe.

Does that make them the worst in the world by far?

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They have by far the largest number of deaths and it hasn't really gotten started over there yet - I get the feeling that the Trump supporters think that it's just a disease of socialists, liberals and migrants, but it will spread in the rest of country, including the remoter bits.

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They have by far the largest number of deaths and it hasn't really gotten started over there yet

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If the total deaths in the US was currently only one tenth of it's current level (but if its population was also only one tenth of its current size) you would be judging them to be more successful?

The chart shows death rate in each country at the same stage of the infection regardless of when the infection started in each country. At 20 days into the infection the US had a lower death rate than Spain, UK, Italy, France or Sweden (pretty much in that order) when they were also 20 days into their infections. At 40 days into the infection in each of these counties there was little difference in that order. Same at 60 days.

You reckon things are going to be dramatically different at 80 days, 100 days out - I suppose we will see.

IF the US "Jumps the Gun" with its restrictions things could go "Pear Shaped" pretty quickly especially during a presidential election year with its associated mass rally's where thousands of people are all bundled up together.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

They have by far the largest number of deaths and it hasn't really gotten started over there yet - I get the feeling that the Trump supporters think that it's just a disease of socialists, liberals and migrants, but it will spread in the rest of country, including the remoter bits.

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As of 19 May the US had the highest number of cases, and most deaths. In the World.

Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak - BBC News

Different ways of measuring give different results, but ninety thousand deaths, 1.5 million infected, 36 million out of work - it's not a great record, is it.