First of all, i liked to say that abolishing the full fee would be a bad idea. I'm a science grad who dtudy under CSP however i apply for the course of radiography at the start of 2006 and b/c my score (GPA) was abit below the avg i could only get into full fee. Now this is how the system works. All CSP places have to be filled in first, before they give out fee places. Second i realli wanted to do radiography but b/c i my avg was a bit of wat they expected ... (a Disctintion) i couldn't make it. In this case without the FEE i wouldn't be able to get into the course i desired the most since yr 12 (i did badly in yr 12). A FEE place doesn't mean u are dumber or u're buying into the course. It's for students who realli wanted to do the course but sadly miss out by a couple of pts. It doesn't mean that b/c u are paying fee, a person with a 80 could get into a 90 Enter course. And 2ndly i am not rich and so are my parents (they're not preofessionals or university grads).
I went to a public school and my parents are not professionals. But b/c i realli want to get into the course, they're willing to pay 23K a yr from their life savings. And students like me can always apply for fee help which means u could still study the course without having a rich parents or if your parents are not willing to support u (which is why a lot of students get CSP-help even they though they get into a CSP course). Hence Fee are not only for rich students. As i mentioned earlier paying fee doesn't means u're dumber than CSP students because studying in uni is a totally different case than high school and a fee student may do better than CSP students. If two students acquired rougly same enter or GPA (if they're in uni) but because all the CSP places are distributed to the students who achived better academic results, this means that both students will lose out in getting a place for the course. But if one of them is willing to pay fee (regardless whether he has rich paretns or not by getting fee help) then the uni may offered him a place b/c he's just slightly off the mark. Now this produce two benefits- 1) the uni could earn more money and 2nd) the student can get into the course. If both ofthe studetns decide to apply for fee places then the uni will again look at thier academic resutls and prob other criteria like certain subects taken during hih school or uni or interview. Both of them will have a fair chance of getting in.
Now those people who said that this only rich students could get in or they're jumping the cue are ignorant. Because if u truly desired to get into the course like myself u are willing to do watever like getting high marks or paying full fee. I read "THE AGE" paper toadys that states that this is an unfair game b/c the fee paying students can revert back to CSP if they do well academically. Well if they achieved high marks in their fee paying course why shouldn't they be reverted back to CSP, at least they're doing better than people who got in with CSP but just averaging a PASS or CREDIT. Reverting back to CSP from FEE is similar to applying for the course again where if u do well, the chances of u getting a CSP place is higher. Hence the fee is still imposed is b/c besides giving unis the chance to earn more money , it also give a chance to students who realli want to get into the course and just miss out by a few pts (Bear in mind that u could only get into fee when u just miss out on the pts eg.. enter or academic results such as GPA if u're in uni).
By the way i defer for a yr to complete my science degree and i tried realli hard to get high marks which i did and reapply again last yr (at the end of 2006) and finally my hard work paid off by gaining a CSP place. However b/c it's a competitive process there's a chance that i may not get in hence i still need to enrol into radiography using Full FEE. It would the same scenario where if i did well during my first yr of radiography and achieved a D avg, then i could revert it back to CSP the next yr. it's just that during my deferment yr, i work hard to acheived the same D avg so that i dun have to pay 23K for then first yr. If i did not defer and enrol straight away then my scenario would have change by paying 23K for the first yr and revert back to CSP after getting a D avg. Now for those students who couldn't revert back to CSP b/c thier results are not good enough, then htey just have to keep paying FULL FEE and that's a fair game.
Therefore my pt is that All students can apply for a fee place depending whether they realli want to get into the course or not regardless of whether they come from a rich or poor background by applying for fee-help. Second those who pay full fee, are those that miss out on a couple pts (whether it's enter, UAI or academic results) not those that miss out by at least 6PTs or more (in terms of enter/UAI). This doesn't make them dumber or not qualify for the same degree b/c they may do better than CSP students in thier course. And there's a limited places of FEE esp in health or medicine related courses due to clinical placement hence it will still be a competitive process b/w Fee-paying applicants. Hence the idea of abolishing full fee by labour doens't benefit studetns or unis alike or those poeple that said that this is unfair are totally ignorant. Feel free to give ur views on my comments.
