CDU Priorities

Domestic students would appreciate a greater focus on their situation and needs rather than the university’s primary orientation toward international and overseas students.  Within the past fortnight we have been told of the CDU extending into Indonesia and now it is the United Kingdom on the radar. Expansion is one thing, but consolidation is another, and it is wrong for domestic students to be considered a poor relation because students pay less for  course fees than their international counterparts. Reading between the lines, it also seem that focus on research takes a greater priority than focus on direct instruction and face to face contace between lecturers and student cohorts.  As they concentrate on the international and distant student cohorts, the CDU Board would do well to remember the domestic student pool and question why many tertiary-ready students prefer to go interstate rather than commencing their degree courses locally.