The Sir Robert Bond Papers

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 hi...

As of March 31, 2014,  Memorial University had an annual deficit of about $330 million. In 2013-2014,  the annual cost of subsidising tuit...

Just for the sake of looking at some numbers, here are some statistics on university enrolment in Newfoundland and Labrador over the past de...

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...

As students head back to Memorial University, you can see the impact the ongoing tuition freeze is having on the university’s budget. You ...

One of the things about writing SRBP is that posts sometimes show changes in thinking as your humble e-scribbler gains more information. O...

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 Pos...

From Luminus Express : The election of alumni representatives to Memorial’s Board of Regents was finalized on Aug. 4, with five new rep...

The Newfoundland and Labrador local of the New Democratic Party wants taxpayers in her province to give Nova Scotians free tuition at Memori...

The Government of Ontario is creating 75 scholarships aimed at attracting top graduate students to Ontario universities. Meanwhile, in an...

This past week, CBC Radio’s Morning Show interviewed Reeta Tremblay, Memorial University vice president (academic) about a Statistics Canada...

“This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot.  It's a stiff....

Truly, things are very strange when the guy who backed a second university for the province  - despite evidence at the time of declining en...

Memorial University Board of Regents chairman Bob Simmonds announced today that the board selected Dr. Gary Kachanoski as the new president...

As of September 22, the presidential search committee at Memorial University had 40 names to review and two whole stages of sifting left bef...

At McMaster, they started hunted in January and 10 months later came up with a winner. At Memorial,  it has already taken almost 10 month...

Lower tuition is attracting Nova Scotians to do an undergraduate degree at Memorial University in large numbers.  The tuition freeze – in ...

Eddy Campbell, acting president at Memorial University, is taking up the president’s job at University of New Brunswick . UNB likes his un...

1.  Telegram editor Russell Wangersky’s Saturday column in which he suggests the court action over the government’s expropriation of asset...

In a late afternoon news release , the provincial government moved to increase its political control of the Memorial University board of reg...