Comments on: Metablog: Adding to Wells on Ivison on Naylor

By: Dot

Dot — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:44:03 +0000

Watch more Mad Men. Connie had it figured out 50 yrs ago.

By: Craig O

Craig O — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:11:32 +0000

Basically, we're trying to recruit the best and brightest from the entire world, not just here at home. Satellite campuses get us exposure to the rest of the world, especially the developping world where motivated, intelligent people may not have access to quality post-secondary education, especially at the graduate level. For example, UW's campus in Dubai trains students for the first two years there, then brings them here for the last two.

Now, I dunno how effective that is in itself – Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge – these universities attract plenty of international students on reputation alone, as do many of our more well-known universities. And it does nothing for our already undereducated workforce – it might actually be a detriment, as we ship in PhD students rather than training them ourselves (though doing both would be best).

Yikes, now I'm getting confused here too. I'm not sure where he's going with it exactly.

By: andrew potter

andrew potter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:56:40 +0000

I thought Alex's claim that these satellite campuses are loss-leaders for the home campus was interesting, but had me scratching my head a bit. I don't quite see how that's supposed to work.

By: Craig O

Craig O — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:24:14 +0000

Heh, I like the part about satellite campuses. Some universities are making strides in that area – U of Waterloo just set up on in Dubai, and I believe they're looking at something in Hong Kong. These expansions have met with great resistance, especially from the student body. It'll be interesting to see if it pays off…