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this argument gets brought into every one of these threads (there are about 1000 of them). And guess what? No-one cares! It's not a vocational course, and it's not designed to be one, it's about teaching and developing other skills, and if you do want vocational education, go to tafe.
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This argument gets brought into every one of these threads (there are about 1000 of them). And guess what? No-one cares! It's not a vocational course, and it's not designed to be one, it's about teaching and developing other skills, and if you do want vocational education, go to Tafe.
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stop being whiney little pussies, you have to do it, get over it.
 

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English aint that bad, its probably my worst subject atm after the half yearlies rank-wise, but its quite enjoyable imho, and plus its helping me write essays for other subjects as well, like economics, as well as writing better structured answers for the sciences :) idk much about tertiary education, but im thinking we're still gonna have to do lots of essays/structured responses.

And like the-derivative said, english is the only thing we have that the 'imports' dont have :D
 

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you live in an country
where english the main language

and esp all those international students
who i highly doubt, would have chose english for a subject if it wasn't compulsory
same goes for me to.

but it makes sense...
 

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I believe that the government uses english to attempt to condition us into certain ways of thinking => to better us. Take the current topic, belonging. By having us all study belonging it makes more of us consider our own place in society and what groups we belong to. I had this great theory on why the government made us study belonging but I've forgotten it lol. I think it has something to do with Bikey Gangs and the Viet Nam War.
 

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