Well in Melbourne the entrance requirements are mainly going up due to more and more people wanting to go to university, people would rather study than work due to the uncertainty of the economy.
Also my girlfriends mum is doing her CPA atm and she just turned 40, she's a CFO of a company so you can always go for a fiancial type job and do your CPA while you're working and become a registered accountant etc then.
Personally i want to do medicine however this year only one university in my state offered it and 120 places aren't many when there were 40,000 students wanting to get into uni. So i'm doing a Bachelor of Science and wanting to get into a post graduate degree in med..
HECS is an interesting topic as a lot of people become 'professional students' for years and never pay anything back.. Just continually accumulate debt.
