What these students won't be told is: that, compared to universities in major cities, SCU's range of courses is thin and almost entirely vocational; that the Coffs campus only runs a small subset of these; that due to savage staff cuts, even notionally on-campus units of study are now offered via what SCU calls "convergent delivery" - i.e. no different to distance education, little chance of any face-to-face interaction with academic staff, and even in some cases lectures recorded months or more earlier; or that SCU's vice chancellor is publicly supporting the deregulation of tuition fees.

What they will have been told, albeit implicitly, is that their only hope of employment that doesn't involve a flouro vest and safety shoes is to voluntarily subject themselves to the most regressive tax in Australian history (HECS). Under its current administration SCU is part of a nationwide credential scam that preys on a mass market of gullible children, most of whom are not yet ready for university but will end up in debt to the ATO whether they graduate or not.