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Full Macquarie Uni Degrees can now be bought over the counter!!!!!!
Wow!!!!! Talk about damaging the reputation of MQ uni degrees. Now you can just buy the damn piece of paper if you got the money (well, we always knew money talks). At least at SiBT you still need to transfer to MQ to fully complete the degree!
Now i def wanna complete my finance degree asap or transfer.
R.I.P - putting in time + effort to "earn" your education. :mad1:
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Graduate recruiter: "So where'd you study at??"
MQ Grad: "I got my degree from Macquarie University"
Graudate Recruiter: "Oh really....can't you just buy those???"
MQ Grad: " ...... "
Graudate Recruiter: "I think I saw one of those in a shop window for around $20k down in the city"
MQ Grad: "..............................."
Private college offers Macquarie degrees
Harriet Alexander - Higher Education Reporter
May 12, 2007
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY will open a city campus that will allow fee-paying students to graduate with its degrees, despite them being taught by a private college that the university knows produces weak students.
The arrival of Macquarie City College on the burgeoning shopfront campus scene in central Sydney has raised concerns among academics that students who do not qualify for university will buy degrees from the Wynyard campus, at the expense of the university's reputation.
The venture is an expansion of the 10-year relationship Macquarie has with the Sydney Institute of Business and Technology, where students who have received a diploma from the college are admitted to the university at second-year level.
Macquarie City College goes further because students will be able to take their whole bachelor degree on the campus and have it conferred by Macquarie University, rather than the institute. (WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
:angry:
The institute's parent company, IBT, will manage Macquarie City College and provide the teaching and administration of courses, while the university will approve the course material and issue the degree. A university-appointed academic director will oversee the appointment of lecturers.
Degrees will cost up to $19,200, but neither partner will say how profits will be split.
Macquarie University's former vice-chancellor, Di Yerbury, signed the deal with IBT to establish the college in the final weeks of her tenure in January last year.
Macquarie City College is due to open in July.
But several academics, who did not want be named, told the Herald they feared for the quality of the courses and the effect on the university's reputation, given the poor standard of former institute students on main campus.
Documents released to the Herald under freedom of information laws show that a disproportionate number of former institute students fail when they matriculate to Macquarie University, particularly in subjects that will be the mainstay of Macquarie City College: accounting and commerce.
Despite constant assurances from the university to academics that the quality of former institute students was improving, even at the most recent end-of-semester examinations the accounting examiner reported the performance by institute students was a "major concern", comprising 31.2 per cent of fail grades.
"This would seem to indicate a … [weakness in skills], especially in relation to reading and comprehension in the English language," the examiner reported.
The institute's director, Andrew Dawkins, complained in late 2005 that the number of his former students who were at risk of being expelled from the university for failing was bad PR for the college.
Mr Dawkins declined to comment. His spokeswoman, Annette Mudjarian, said the university stuck to its rules and did not make it easier to pass students.
Macquarie University said it is working with the institute to improve pass rates in some areas.
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Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/private-college-offers-macquarie-degrees/2007/05/11/1178390559627.html
Wow!!!!! Talk about damaging the reputation of MQ uni degrees. Now you can just buy the damn piece of paper if you got the money (well, we always knew money talks). At least at SiBT you still need to transfer to MQ to fully complete the degree!
Now i def wanna complete my finance degree asap or transfer.
R.I.P - putting in time + effort to "earn" your education. :mad1:
------------------------------------------------------------
Graduate recruiter: "So where'd you study at??"
MQ Grad: "I got my degree from Macquarie University"
Graudate Recruiter: "Oh really....can't you just buy those???"
MQ Grad: " ...... "
Graudate Recruiter: "I think I saw one of those in a shop window for around $20k down in the city"
MQ Grad: "..............................."
Private college offers Macquarie degrees
Harriet Alexander - Higher Education Reporter
May 12, 2007
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY will open a city campus that will allow fee-paying students to graduate with its degrees, despite them being taught by a private college that the university knows produces weak students.
The arrival of Macquarie City College on the burgeoning shopfront campus scene in central Sydney has raised concerns among academics that students who do not qualify for university will buy degrees from the Wynyard campus, at the expense of the university's reputation.
The venture is an expansion of the 10-year relationship Macquarie has with the Sydney Institute of Business and Technology, where students who have received a diploma from the college are admitted to the university at second-year level.
Macquarie City College goes further because students will be able to take their whole bachelor degree on the campus and have it conferred by Macquarie University, rather than the institute. (WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
:angry: The institute's parent company, IBT, will manage Macquarie City College and provide the teaching and administration of courses, while the university will approve the course material and issue the degree. A university-appointed academic director will oversee the appointment of lecturers.
Degrees will cost up to $19,200, but neither partner will say how profits will be split.
Macquarie University's former vice-chancellor, Di Yerbury, signed the deal
with IBT to establish the college in the final weeks of her tenure in January last year.Macquarie City College is due to open in July.
But several academics, who did not want be named, told the Herald they feared for the quality of the courses and the effect on the university's reputation, given the poor standard of former institute students on main campus.
Documents released to the Herald under freedom of information laws show that a disproportionate number of former institute students fail when they matriculate to Macquarie University, particularly in subjects that will be the mainstay of Macquarie City College: accounting and commerce.
Despite constant assurances from the university to academics that the quality of former institute students was improving, even at the most recent end-of-semester examinations the accounting examiner reported the performance by institute students was a "major concern", comprising 31.2 per cent of fail grades.
"This would seem to indicate a … [weakness in skills], especially in relation to reading and comprehension in the English language," the examiner reported.
The institute's director, Andrew Dawkins, complained in late 2005 that the number of his former students who were at risk of being expelled from the university for failing was bad PR for the college.
Mr Dawkins declined to comment. His spokeswoman, Annette Mudjarian, said the university stuck to its rules and did not make it easier to pass students.
Macquarie University said it is working with the institute to improve pass rates in some areas.
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Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/private-college-offers-macquarie-degrees/2007/05/11/1178390559627.html
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