Financial Aid for Uni Students
September 15th 2006 06:26
The Australian Government needs to assist university students more financially.
This would then help to alleviate the huge problem of skills shortages in this country.
All you should need to receive a university placement is the academic requirements. However, it is becoming harder and harder to get a university placement because students with money are given preference over those with the necessary intellect to succeed at university and in the workforce.
We should be encouraging students to enter university courses that they choose to and have the necessary academic requirements to receive a placing.
Money should NOT be an issue.
There are so many skills shortages in this country like doctors and nurses but there are no incentives for school students thinking of taking up these careers to help pay the financial obligations of a university degree.
If there are people with the brains and the passion to do these careers, why isn’t the government encouraging them?
Isn’t it better to alleviate the financial burden on university students than to spend millions of dollars on a health system that is in a critical stage of disaster? Won’t this save lives by having the necessary staff numbers at our hospitals?
There are often stories in the media detailing emergency departments and other departments at hospitals closing due to staff shortages as well as the critical need to attract doctors and nurses to rural areas.
Why can’t the government pay for students’ university degrees and in return require the students when they graduate from university to fill these shortages? This may mean that graduates might have to work in rural areas for a certain number of years before they can choose where they would like to live and work.
Surely, this would result in less money being spent by the government to alleviate the huge skills shortages problem in Australia as well as a disastrous health system. This would improve the nation’s economy. It could also help to reduce the unemployment rate in Australia by encouraging people to get into their chosen career.
This would then help to alleviate the huge problem of skills shortages in this country.
All you should need to receive a university placement is the academic requirements. However, it is becoming harder and harder to get a university placement because students with money are given preference over those with the necessary intellect to succeed at university and in the workforce.
We should be encouraging students to enter university courses that they choose to and have the necessary academic requirements to receive a placing.
Money should NOT be an issue.
There are so many skills shortages in this country like doctors and nurses but there are no incentives for school students thinking of taking up these careers to help pay the financial obligations of a university degree.
If there are people with the brains and the passion to do these careers, why isn’t the government encouraging them?
Isn’t it better to alleviate the financial burden on university students than to spend millions of dollars on a health system that is in a critical stage of disaster? Won’t this save lives by having the necessary staff numbers at our hospitals?
There are often stories in the media detailing emergency departments and other departments at hospitals closing due to staff shortages as well as the critical need to attract doctors and nurses to rural areas.
Why can’t the government pay for students’ university degrees and in return require the students when they graduate from university to fill these shortages? This may mean that graduates might have to work in rural areas for a certain number of years before they can choose where they would like to live and work.
Surely, this would result in less money being spent by the government to alleviate the huge skills shortages problem in Australia as well as a disastrous health system. This would improve the nation’s economy. It could also help to reduce the unemployment rate in Australia by encouraging people to get into their chosen career.
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