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dhfr
03-06-2005, 10:37 PM
Interesting opinion from Australia: Sentinels of the university mantle really are living in an ivory tower (http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Sentinels-of-the-university-mantle-really-are-living-in-an-ivory-tower/2005/03/06/1110044256619.html?oneclick=true)

Snippet:People who shop internationally for education are clever and well-informed, and they don't think Harvard is a bad university just because it shares national boundaries with Californian internet universities advertising PhDs with credit for life experience. The United States has many of the worst but all of the best universities in the world. Deregulation causes diversity, and diversity produces excellence. It's that simple.You can access the article through Google News (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Sentinels+of+the+university+mantle+really+are +living+in+an+ivory+tower%22) to avoid registering with the site.
Dennis Ruhl
03-06-2005, 11:28 PM
In my belief it was predetermined that Greenwich U of the Norfolk Islands would never receive a fair hearing. Essentially the existing Australian Universities would have had to welcome them to the club and we see that is never going to happen for anyone.

It's all power politics and nothing more. Canada is similarly the domain of state run universities. All but a few of the private universities are church operated.

My personal belief is that instead of the government giving say 10 grand to the public universities per annum per student, the grant should be portable with the funding of research totally separate from the funding for instruction.

Then let the market determine which schools will thrive. There would still have to be some reasonable method to determine that schools were legit.
George Brown
03-07-2005, 04:21 AM
The author of the article's institution was knocked back for membership of the AVCC. So was Greenwich. Membership of the AVCC guarantees listing in the IHU and ACU Handbook. It is these things which cause great angst and problems re- a level playing field. The new discussion paper he refers to (see http://www.dest.gov.au/highered/pubs/building_diversity/default.htm) is really going to ruffle some feathers. Its about time if happened though.

Cheers,

George