Comments on: Premier Campbell’s university-making magic wand

By: British Columbia: Premier Campbell’s university-making magic wand

British Columbia: Premier Campbell’s university-making magic wand — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:18:45 +0000

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By: Henryk Kolny

Henryk Kolny — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:21:58 +0000

I can not believe that Canada does not have branch of government that formally recognizes qualified educational institutions as Universities. It should be done according to set of well thought of, known requirements that include research and at least school of graduate studies. To name some substandard institutions as universities by provinces for political reasons becomes a parody. It affects badly perception of all Canada’s educational system outside of our country.

By: Bo Yerxa

Bo Yerxa — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:09:06 +0000

Having worked at post-secondary institutions humble (community college) and high (Cornell University), I have some practical experience in higher education, primarily in very rural parts of New England and New York. But with friends in the Skeena Valley who I visit as often as I can, I am also a bit familiar with B.C..

The institution of higher education where I now work became a university just a few years ago, after 70 years as a college. The rationale? Because we had made the grade to offering doctoral degrees. That is really the norm…

Calling an institution that only offers bachelor degrees a university, however effective the learning that occurs there might be, is a farce.