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UCL closure kills Uni City dream in Adelaide : Comments

By Malcolm King, published 3/2/2015

The University of Adelaide ranks 100th in the QS World Universities Rankings. The difference between the two institutions is not incremental. It's logarithmic.

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Hi Malcolm,

Great article as always.

One minor thing UCL is University College London.

Cheers Onno
Posted by Onno, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 9:42:31 AM
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There is something in the Water in Adelaide. I don't know what it is but it makes smart people dumb.
I live in country SA and just shake my head at the government in Adelaide. Their ability to do things differently or to think outside outside of the CBD is non existent. Sadly the Libs are even worst so no value in changing horses.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 12:38:57 PM
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Here's a genuine Adelaidian bogan (with the baseball cap) picking up travellers from Adelaide's snow covered airfield http://youtu.be/dbgOACJpZg0 .

Said bogan is so inbred even his scrawny sister (next to him) knocked him back.
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 10:54:30 PM
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University College London (UCL) may be closing down its Adelaide campus, but two other universities remain in the same building: Torrens University Australia and Carnegie Mellon University Australia: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2014/07/how-many-universities-in-torrens.html

Torrens may well prove to be the success story of the three in Adelaide, as it uses a different business model to a typical Australian university. Torrens is part of Laureate International Universities, which provides education on-line to 800,000 students: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2013/12/is-torrens-university-australias-first.html

Torrens presents a challenge to Australian universities as it can teach students using its world wide on-line resources. This could serve as a useful wake-up call for Australian institutions to learn to compete, before offshore educational institutions take away their market. At the moment I am a student of a North American on-line master of education, to learn how to design such on-line programs for Australia: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2013/08/masters-in-on-line-distance-education.html
Posted by tomw, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 8:39:16 AM
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