◆ JOB-READY GRADUATES Mohammad Shahhosseini/Unsplash
Higher education should be for everyone At the beginning of this year, in what was a spur of the moment decision, I applied to undertake a Masters degree. It had been a long time coming. Indeed, when I finished honours in 2002, I had planned to enter the workforce, enjoy not being utterly broke for a bit, then return to uni to begin my PhD. Seven years later, I finally realised that wasn’t going to happen so I enrolled in a graduate diploma to ‘dip my toes’ back in the world of academia with the view of continuing on. Again, that didn’t happen so eight years later, here I am again: only a couple of weeks away from submitting my final assessments for my Masters and seeing what I do next.
Celeste Liddle, NTEU National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Organiser
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ADVOCATE VOL. 27 NO. 3 ◆ NOV 2020