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I’m an academic, but I’ve told my stepdaughter to think twice about going to university

My stepdaughter is in her final year of high school and I am an academic, yet I’ve recently advised her to think twice before enrolling in university.

Why? Because right now kids are taking on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to have a terrible campus experience while being graded on who can write the best AI prompts.

In the three years since ChatGPT was released we have arrived at a point in which all of Australia’s universities are committing widespread, industrial-scale fraud. The students who began their studies back then are now graduating and entering the workforce, and we’ll soon begin to see the results of a real-time experiment in degree by GPT.

'I know you are busy': Students apologetic, 'short-changed' as university class sizes explode

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Students are cramming into university tutorials and labs as overworked academics confront a class size "crisis".

A national survey of 4,421 university staff conducted in early 2025 by the National Tertiary Education Union found class sizes have skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The major report, released on Wednesday, showed three out of five university staff surveyed (62 per cent) reported tutorial and lab sizes had grown since 2019, with 35 per cent describing the change as significant.

Staff indicated the share of tutorials with 30 or more students had doubled from 27 per cent to 54 per cent.

‘Students are paying the price’: More than half of uni tutorials at least double the ideal size

Tutorials have exploded to more than double the ideal size, student support has collapsed and class engagement has worsened significantly as Australia edges towards $100,000 degrees and universities suffer a crisis of public confidence.

This is the scathing conclusion of a landmark national survey of more than 4000 staff members by the National Tertiary Education Union which compared 2019 tutorials and lectures to now. That year was the last before COVID-19 disruptions and the much-maligned Job Ready Graduates scheme was introduced.

The outlook is bleak. The survey found that 62 per cent of staff reported tutorial size had increased in that period. While research shows the ideal size for a tutorial is 10-19 students, more than half of today’s tutorials host 30 or more students.

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