The Greenwich University Review Report is now available!!!!

Hot off the DETYA e-mail system, I have obtained a copy of the official Greenwich University Review Report. You can download a copy off my site at http://www.virtualuniversities.net/austvirtualunis/greenwich/green1.htm

It is over 153 pages long, so be patient when downloading. Format is Word 2000. Unfortunately Greenwich's right of reply to the report (which should be appended) is unavailable in digital format, so I will try and get a copy and scan it somehow.

This document makes *very* interesting reading, especially the official status of Norfolk Island.

Happy reading.

Cheers,

George


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Hey, George!

For those of us who are too lazy or too busy, would you care to offer up your synopsis/condensation of the report?

I for one would really appreciate it, even though I'm sure I will eventually get around to reading the full report.

 

I was curious about the Greenwich owner's feelings about this stuff, and emailed him to Norfolk Island to ask. Here is John Walsh of Brannagh's response, which he has given me permission to post here.
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You know yourself that we were not
"driven out" of California or Hawaii or anywhere else. We established on
Norfolk Island because the owners live here and the Australian Government
asked us to set up here. We are an autonomous accredited university
established under an Act of Parliament, the highest form of accreditation
there is. No Australian university meets the "expected" standards. The
standards have just been written and have not been applied to any university
other than Greenwich. As a matter of interest no American university (not
one) would meet the "expected" standards. The "standards" were written to
keep foreign universities out and new universities from starting, and mean
whatever the reviewers want them to mean. You may be interested to learn
that the reviewers spent less than four hours at the university (3 and 3/4
to be precise) and less than ten minutes reading theses and dissertations
from the Hawaii office (two reviewers standing up at a bench flicking
through the pages: I think the actual time was closer to eight minutes).
The other point of interest is that we had to issue a formal application
under the Freedom of Information Act to get a copy of the Report, and then
only received part of it.
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