#DegreeInflation
How do we reverse the #Enshitification of Australia?

Everything is getting more privatised, kowtowing to lobby groups, more #RightWing,... WORSE.

#VoteSocialist I guess, or as far as #LEFT as you can!

#AUSPOL #Uni #HigherEducation #Education #ICAC #Privatisation #UOW #KordaMentha #Nationalise
Disturbing commercialisation of Australia's unis exposed at ICAC corruption investigation - VC job for lavish consultant deal at UOW.
Adam Lucas & James Guthrie
#auspol

michaelwest.com.au/uni-of-wollo...
August 4, 2026 at 7:48 AM
My experience differed from your's significantly. I adjuncted for 25 years because despite excellent teaching evaluations and committee work community college faculty positions were filled by Vietnam era men. By the time they retired my MA didn't compete with baby PhDs. #degreeinflation #sexism
January 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A sharp essay on degree inflation, licensing barriers, and how credentials increasingly matter more than competence in Canada’s labour market.
👇Essay:
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-creden...

#Credentialism #DegreeInflation #PublicPolicy
#Gatekeeping #Competence #Productivity
#Meritocracy
April 13, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Degrees once measured competence. Now they often measure access.
Paper first. Skill second.
When credentials become toll booths
The labour market’s paperwork arms race
👇Essay:
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com/p/the-creden...

#Credentialism
#DegreeInflation
#LabourMarket
#PublicPolicy
#Gatekeeping
The Credential Cartel: How degrees replaced competence — and scarcity replaced skill
Degrees, licences, and the hidden economics of gatekeeping, where modern work rewards credentials more than competence, and legitimacy costs years, debt, and permission
curmudgeonlycanadian.substack.com
April 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM