UC promises to do something better

I really wish the Canberra Times would just do its job as journalists to scrutinize what Parker says. Back to c_c: The University of Wyoming leads U.S. research universities measured by funding of $17,000 US annually per student. The information is out there for U.S. Universities, not so for Australian ones. There are 13,500 students at UW. Do the math. $230 million a year. That’s a lot of money even if the school was founded in the 19th century, Plus UW has a $300 million + Foundation. The numbers quoted for UC (where I work contributing to those great numbers Parker likes to quote) is $50 K AUS per researcher. How many researchers are there at UC? This is a good question: as low as possible via cherry picking. Where are you Canberra Times? Or Johnboy? And those dollars buy a lot more research in the U.S., where a postdoctoral researcher makes $40-45 K/year. At UC, it’s $86K. And the UC Foundation, don’t make me laugh! Care to retract c_c?

c-c: The University of Canberra will NEVER obtain the world university status of the University of Wyoming, which is a strongly funded school from a state with large gas and oil revenue. Unfortunately, despite what Professor Parker knows but doesn’t want to talk about, UC has actually dropped in national research ranking for university research in science (ERA 2012).

It sounds like a tall order, but think about it, they need only do a little bit better than University of Wyoming and they’re in! Climbing to the lofty heights of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences may take a little longer.

it’s all over their website: http://www.canberra.edu.au/breakthrough
all seems pretty sensible.