LFA (3) NON PHYSICAL WALLS IMPOSED BY THE UNIVERSITY

The most obvious non physical wall that comes to mind imposed by the university would definitely be the entry requirements to enroll in different courses. Some courses require more points that the other and there's some that include a portfolio submission as an additional requirement.

For Med school, students are required to succeed the top percentile of 1st year biomed in order to be accepted to study medicine. On top of that, they are also required to pass an interview which is granted through achieving certain grade boundaries. The students who don't make it through the first year of biomed are required to finished the course before they are able to apply for med school again.

In architecture, students are required to submit a portfolio and and introductory statement before being accepted to study there. For those who haven't learned to draw would be disadvantaged and turned away before they could have a chance to learn it. Victoria offers an alternative to UOA whereby they accept all students based on grade points on the first year but consequently culling them based on performance in the following year.

Finance is also a form of an "invisible wall" when people think about applying for tertiary education. Apart from the first year free grant by the government, students would consider working a trades job instead of pursuing a higher level education because the pay is immediate and can compare to an office job. After graduating, students might find difficulty landing a job, thus a higher level education doesn't guarantee a better future. In conjunction with a student debt, working a trades job would definitely seem better to some.

Another kind of an "invisible wall" imposed by the university would be inter-faculty engagement, or the lack of engagement. Students would study business or engineering would only have the chance to interact with people within their own degree. With organisation such as business faculty, CAI, engineering etc, it encourages users to stick within their own faculty and become isolated from one another. When in reality, engineers would eventually work with architects and finance people, management etc. Instead of a bubbling inter-faculty engaging social life on campus, UOA has segregated faculties into their own specialisation and isolated them from one another.