The public meeting called by UTAS on Friday evening in relation to the university’s aspirations to relocate to Inveresk did little more than expose a paucity of planning on the part of all the proponents.
The university blamed its declining numbers on inadequate infrastructure. However, clearly the students are not coming because the course offerings are failing to measure up to 21st Century demands.
Likewise, higher education is being exposed to culturally and socially determined demand shifts that the planning cabal is paying almost no attention to.
It was claimed that 50% of Tasmanians were “functionally illiterate” and it appeared that the ‘planners’ were counting on the other 50% looking the other way as they fumbled about.
Despite assertions to the contrary, there is an obvious lack of strategic planning and meaningful consultation backing up the current proposal to spend large amounts of public money to tweak the status quo.
On the floor of the meeting the empire builders looked quite naked under the close scrutiny of the ‘community’ whose ‘hearts and minds’ they were seeking to win over.
Time for a reality check and meaningful consultation.
Ray Norman
Trevallyn
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