Imagine, if you can, what it must be like to be Sandy Collins. Sandy is a very young man who is - right now - living the first line of his epitaph. Imagine, if you can do two at one, what it must be like to be Veronica Hayden. Veronica
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Our Gift to Nova Scotia #nlpoli
As of March 31, 2014, Memorial University had an annual deficit of about $330 million. In 2013-2014, the annual cost of subsidising tuition for out-of-province students at Memorial was $112 million. The provincial government operation subsidy to the university has doubled since 2004. Those are a few of snippets from
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: University Enrolment #nlpoli
Just for the sake of looking at some numbers, here are some statistics on university enrolment in Newfoundland and Labrador over the past decade. The figures are from Statistics Canada. (Read more…)
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The facts should speak for themselves #nlpoli
The very best thing that may be said about the idea of a law school at Memorial University is that the proponents of the idea have failed to make their case. The very worst is that the university is currently wasting everyone’s time by talking about something with no shape,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Impact of the Tuition Freeze #nlpoli
As students head back to Memorial University, you can see the impact the ongoing tuition freeze is having on the university’s budget. You can see it in the policy to pass credit card handling fees on to students. In the official university organ – the Gazette – the university claimed
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Autonomy for Memorial University #nlpoli
One of the things about writing SRBP is that posts sometimes show changes in thinking as your humble e-scribbler gains more information. Over the last few posts and on Twitter, some of you may have seen a comment to the effect that you could replace the government subsidy to the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: “China is already so yesterday” #nlpoli
Memorial University’s dean of graduate studies wasn’t so keen on China as a source of students in February 2011. In a post on her blog Postcards from the edge, Noreen Golfman wrote; The point is that Memorial, if it is to play seriously in the realm of international recruitment, cannot
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