They Said It

We’ve got lots of students wanting to do gaming design and no one wanting to do IT or computing now, but we’ve got thousands of jobs in IT and computing, and about three in game design and lots of graduates.”
Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans commenting on how the new student-demand-driven system that was introduced earlier this year is not working. Senator Evans told a Future of Work Conference in Sydney recently that the government’s $10 billion-a-year student-demand-driven system of allocating places was too driven by student choices and isn’t working because students have too much choice.