I sense you take offense at the term recently upgraded etc ...
But on the other side of the coin, there are many young people walking the streets with no job or skills because in the unruly rush for govt grants many excellant polytechnics dropped their excellant vocational roots and merged with the herd to churn out what are largely worthless degrees, leaving the less academicly inclined with even fewer options.

I am truely glad you got your second chance and the system worked for you.

However I stand by my observation, based on my 20 years in higher education, that too many institutions are chasing too little money.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 13:09, Reply)