the intellectual lament of respect for tradition

[niveau]

Sometimes I get asked why I am so eager to get out of Australia's higher education environment in favour of a close cousin on foreign shores. Usually an answer is easy enough to feign, "Not good enough for them here until you've been 'over there'." But then you get moments like this that offer up more precise reasons for wanting to flee the (un)

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[byzantinespy]

Is that article for real? It seems like something I'd read in The Onion.

[niveau]

1) yes, it is satire.
2) yes, it's mostly truth.

[thefuriouscynic]

What's a close foreign cousin of Oz? The only other floating penal colony I can think of is the UK. ;)

[sulphuroxide]

evil foucault