University as a vocational educator has been a problem for thirty years, before any of this stuff. Once finishing highschool became almost mandatory and white collar employers started insisting on degree level qualifications you have the rising of the tide, so to speak.

I guess you can ignore out the technical college part of it. I do feel that the effect is exacerbated as foreign students go into uni for this exact reason but they are more lucrative.

It's also worth noting that none of this necessarily has anything to do with overseas students as such. Only a need to get foreign fee paying students to pay for your university. The 'suffering in unis' was essentially created by government to get this effect.

I disagree that none of it has to do with foreign students. My own education suffered significantly due to being out numbered by foreign students. 5/6 group assignments consisted of all foreigners except myself, or I had one other local. Most of them could barely speak English, and this was Swinburne Uni, a so called top 3 university.

Nearly every time it was my by myself, spending half my time breaking down very basic concepts so the foreigners could understand. A lot of times I handed in half finished work, and in the report basically said that the assignment could not be completed simply due to the fact that I would have to do 100% of the assignment to complete it.

Yet these foreigners would always make it into my next class, and I have no idea how. Most of them should have failed.

This is a problem, you're supposed to as a group, learn as a group. If everyone does 20%, you should learn 100% of the subject matter by proxy, by being in the group and having others instruct you on what they learned. Instead I learn 20%, and the others learn nothing and teach nothing. So I only learn 20% of the subject matter.