22 responses to “Mater’s Musings #62: “Real-life skills” indeed”

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   Bruce of Newcastle

   Nov 5, 2022 7:20 AM

   Good news! Hockeystick Mann is gracing us with a tour next year. Maybe he could do a double act with Greta promoting communism. After all they’re both substantial millionaires.

   Energy Expert Michael Mann (Tony Heller, 3 Nov)

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2. 

   calli

   Nov 5, 2022 7:21 AM

   I didn’t download the course guide. They wanted too much information about me. Must be a secret. However I did glean this:

   Reflect critically on climate policy issues and practical challenges in diverse contexts.

   No need for an expensive course. Dover should hand out “certificates” after a month at the Cat where we do plenty of critical reflection and discuss practical challenges from our many diverse contexts.

   Oh. That’s right. We are barking for the wrong side of the issue. Silly me.

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3. 

   Miltonf

   Nov 5, 2022 7:27 AM

   Just what you would expect from the ANUs in the parasite robber state on the fake lake.

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4. 

   Louis Litt

   Nov 5, 2022 7:52 AM

   Milton of – lakes fine, lay out is fine, now high rIse , people are foul mouths, pretentious and proud of their uselessness.

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5. 

   Charles

   Nov 5, 2022 8:30 AM

   I wonder what you end up with, a graduate certificate in Rent-Seeking presumably?

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6. 

   duncanm

   Nov 5, 2022 8:47 AM

   Oh dear: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/study/graduate-degrees

   even better, you can do a “Master of Climate Change”.
   https://crawford.anu.edu.au/study/graduate-degrees/master-climate-change

   I guess then you’ll have the power to change the climate, no?

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7. 

   Shy Ted

   Nov 5, 2022 9:20 AM

   I’m going to sign up for the HAARP semester.

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8. 

   MatrixTransform

   Nov 5, 2022 9:22 AM

   Reflect critically on climate policy issues and practical challenges in diverse contexts

   https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/CCPOL

   each course is about $4500
   so spend a paltry $50k for a Grad Cert and you’ll deffo be able to pick winners and shut everybody else up

   The course comprises 10 subjects
   to graduate you will undertake all compulsory units and any 6 of the 8 core subjects

   Compulsory core:
   – Pejoratives 101
   – Super Glue for beginners
   – Inter-sectional Gibber for beginners
   – Advanced Gibber for policy makers

   Electives:
   – Economic Perspectives: When is a market not a market?
   – Mech Eng: The corrected science of perpetual motion and why Bernoulli was a wanker
   – Stochastic Principals : yes, you read it properly … or, how to be right all the time
   – Resource Justice: Why water is a finite resource but stupidity is infinite
   – Climate Jurisprudence: how to deal with denialists and would gulags be faster than carrots and sticks
   – Political and Institutional Architecture: novel ways tor burden an economy and profit at the same time
   – Environmental Religiosity: we’re on a mission from Gaia
   – Food Security: humane methods of starving the bastards into compliance

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9. 

   wal1957

   Nov 5, 2022 9:31 AM

   And the indoctrination continues….and idiots are willing to pay for it!

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10. 

    Roger

    Nov 5, 2022 9:41 AM

    I wonder if the kids from XR have the attention span to complete a university course, even one as soft as this, though it assumes a prior degree.

    This one is for the more committed devotees who wish to become advisers to politicians and inflict some real damage on human beings rather than the artifacts of a culture they are incapable of appreciating.

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    billie

    Nov 5, 2022 9:55 AM

    I suspect this a qualification for Canberra public servants only

    I can’t imagine anyone else looking for such a skill set in the workplace

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12. 

    miltonf

    Nov 5, 2022 10:08 AM

    people are foul mouths, pretentious and proud of their uselessness.

    yes that’s my experience

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13. 

    MatrixTransform

    Nov 5, 2022 10:15 AM

    even better, you can do a “Master of Climate Change”

    saw that too.
    have a look at the course list

    zero science, eng, or math

    fmd

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14. 

    Bruce

    Nov 5, 2022 10:19 AM

    From the memory hole:

    “Remember, remember,
    The Fifth of November.
    Gunpowder, Treason and Plot!”

    The question remains:

    “Was Guido Fawkes the only man to enter Parliament with honest intentions?”

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15. 

    Dot

    Nov 5, 2022 11:39 AM

    Real life skills?

    To stop CO2 production?

    Must be a degree in nuclear engineering.

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16. 

    Zipster

    Nov 5, 2022 12:23 PM

    useless class, a self fulfilling prophecy

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17. 

    WolfmanOz

    Nov 5, 2022 12:58 PM

    And all paid for with the poor punters taxes – FFS !

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18. 

    Rabz

    Nov 5, 2022 4:28 PM

    You can’t help but pity these poor staggeringly ignorant illiterate innumerate ahistorical anti scientific fact and evidence free imbeciles.

    I certainly don’t.

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    Damon

    Nov 5, 2022 6:53 PM

    Don’t be too hard on ANU . For about ten years, from the mid seventies, JCSMR was a very fine institution.
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    thefrollickingmole

    Nov 6, 2022 12:43 AM

    Designed to parachute into government/ UN roles completely uncontaminated by an opposing thought being encountered.

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21. 

    rickw

    Nov 6, 2022 1:26 AM

    Why do we have a country full of idiots?

    They’re training for it.

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    Bazinga

    Nov 6, 2022 10:56 AM

    Graduates would have virtue signalled unemployability

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