You could do a find-and-replace on this article replacing "Canada" with "Australia" and it would all still hold. Universities have become all about moneymaking

You could do a find-and-replace on this article replacing "Canada" with "Australia" and it would all still hold. Universities have become all about moneymaking and will happily accept students who lack the prerequisite knowledge for a course, setting them up for failure when they inevitably struggle with the material. Lecturers get pressured to dumb down course material and pass students who haven't demonstrated adequate abilities in their coursework. I used to teach computer science back in Australia and saw a lot of this first hand. Part of the reason I left was because I didn't feel comfortable being part of this dirty system.