First of all, thank you for sharing with us the situation in our private institutions of higher learning. I think this consequence is inevitable once education has been commercialised. The institutions' owners have become nothing but typical capitalists who set profits as their ultimate goal.
In order to acquire maximum profit with minimum cost, they prefer hiring more young new lecturers with lower wages rather than spending more money on the existing experienced senior lecturers, even if they are very knowledgeable and have contributed much in their careers.
When education has been commercialised, only courses with apparent market value will be given more priorities. Therefore, none of our private institutions of higher learning offer courses like history, anthropology, sociology or political science. And even though our public institutions of higher learning are still offering these courses, the departments concerned get very few funds for conducting research as well as organising academic conferences, compared to other departments that offer courses with apparent market value.
These courses, mostly covering social sciences and humanities, are actually important in creating a more balanced and humanised society, but they are severely neglected just because they lack of the so-called market value.
Every year the government collects a great amount of taxes from the taxpayers. And yet it cannot afford to establish more institutions of higher learning to fulfill the needs of the people. Therefore, private institutions are here to provide more opportunities to the people to acquire higher education, with making profits as their ultimate goal.
When education has been commercialised, the institutions pay more attention in getting more students enrolled than in conducting research. They are only interested in producing more knowledge workers rather than scholars and intellectuals. At the end of the day, our students and society would be the ones who suffer the most, and this is the sad part of this country.