Online lectures at double speed: what uni is really like in 2024
Domestic students are being held back and international students aren’t getting what they need, says one expert. Universities know this. Why aren’t they doing more?
Sydney University politics student Chloe Linstrom doesn’t go to most of her lectures because she has to work three days a week.
The 20-year-old, from Newcastle, instead prefers to watch them online in double speed so she can hold down her job in the public service to pay her weekly rent of $380 for cramped student accommodation with a shared bathroom and kitchen.
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Gus McCubbingReporterGus McCubbing is a journalist at the Australian Financial Review in Melbourne. Connect with Gus on Twitter. Email Gus at gus.mccubbing@afr.com
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