UC to swallow CIT?

Stanhope University

AG Canberra said :

What about the Canberra University of New Technology…..That was also one of the options when the name change was done 20 years ago.

Couldn’t call it that, it would clash with the Canberra Uni Netball Team.

Does anybody ever wonder what percentage of any governments yearly workload is devoted to either merging or splitting some business, department or whatever?

If improvements were made each time, then they all should run f%&king brilliantly by now.

What about the Canberra University of New Technology…..That was also one of the options when the name change was done 20 years ago.

chow said :

Bring it on. We can then rank with Darwin. Where Northern Territory University has a baking department.

“Charles Darwin”

Waiting For Godot said :

Well UC was originally a college until 1991 (CCAE). I was there when the debate about amalgamations and name changes was happening. It was the standard joke going around campus that the place would be renamed Southern Highlands Institute of Technology (SHIT). Teeheehee.

When what’s UC started [mid-70s] it was called ‘Bruce College of Technical and Further Education and known to one and all as Bruce TAFE [It was the only thing in Bruce at the time].

The ‘SHIT’ name option was one of the ‘suggestions’ put up when it became CCAE [early 80s I think].

Bring it on. We can then rank with Darwin. Where Northern Territory University has a baking department.

What Canberra needs is another TAFE institute and have some healthy competition. All schools are businesses at the end of the day.

Well UC was originally a college until 1991 (CCAE). I was there when the debate about amalgamations and name changes was happening. It was the standard joke going around campus that the place would be renamed Southern Highlands Institute of Technology (SHIT). Teeheehee.

Chop71 said :

Nothing like a University of Canberra Panel Beaters Degree or a Bachelor of Applied Hairdressing

or a PhD in either.

Nothing like a University of Canberra Panel Beaters Degree or a Bachelor of Applied Hairdressing