Australian undergraduate teaching

[...] universities are taking in students to study science who do not have the preparation, and possibly ability, to complete courses of proper rigor[...]

In Australia, the pressure to combat declining science undergraduate enrollment has resulted in dumbed-down courses with lower standards enrolling many unprepared  students (a worldwide theme, mind you). Whilst keeping the departments afloat - at least temporarily - the long-term damage to education and science is huge. The other logical extension, recruiting foreign students, has lead to interesting, if flawed, experiments in foreign campuses.