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Questions asked over new university in Adelaide
As the chilly winter winds blow across Adelaide, spare a thought though for Torrens University (Laureate Education Asia), which is still homeless. Amongst much fanfare, honorary chancellor Bill Clinton launched the new university last October by video link. Yet the private for-profit campus should have been established and administration staff hired by now to begin trading in 2013 as pledged.
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Thanx for this update. Laureate’s application for a university title projected student numbers, but didn’t provide evidence for those projections.
Even so, it projected modest enrolments in its first 5 years and it was hard to see how this would maintain ‘sustained scholarship that informs teaching and learning in all fields in which courses of study are offered’ as required by the registration standards.
Why would a private univesity be paying the SA Sate Gov??
Torrens University had planned to pay the SA government $10 million at the start-up, $10 million when it enrols its first student, and another $10 million when it enrols its 500th student. In the long term it expected its investment in South Australia to grow to more than $100 million.