cannibal.horse said:
Chameleon or pretty much anyone who's willing to reply I'm a bit of a thread necropheliac and I've been digging through old posts.
Quite a few of you mention that a few years ago Newcastle 'opened up the floodgates' what did you mean?
I've noticed that the UAI's for a lot of courses (aka law) have dropped dramatically and nowdays the regional bonus points count for everything, plus they've just introduced a new extra marks for certain subjects thing.
sorry to add a touch of seriousness to your thread, I didn't wanna be all pretentious and all by starting a new one.
Yeah. The cut-off's have been dropped really low to allow a lot more people into courses they wouldn't/shouldn't usually be admitted into, to boost numbers in the degree programs.
Doesn't help being a regional-ish uni and not having the large pool of potential students that Sydney uni's have. But doesn't help the credibility of the courses, or the students studying them either. Basically, they are trying to start over with a few of the courses. Commerce for one, has been revamped/rebadged and now encompasses B.Finance and B.Economics, so they have dropped both of those degrees and now no longer offer them.
So now, there are only B.Business and B.Commerce (Majors in Accounting, Finance, and Economics). For the uni's sake, I hope they can make some inroads into improving the quality of the courses and attracting more students to the B.Comm program, because all in all, there are some great accounting lecturers here that don't get near enough credit (or pay) for what they do.
The end.
EDIT: That whole story was why I made the 'floodgate' comment in the first place.