News & Views item - December  2004

 

 

A Resident of Surrey Hills, Victoria Makes a Case for University Research in 270 Words. (December 16, 2004)

    John Legge is the principal of Information Strategy Planning Pty Ltd. and associate professor (adjunct) at La Trobe University's Graduate School of Management. In a succinct letter to the Australian Financial Review, written as a private citizen, he makes his case why calling a teaching only tertiary institution a university is nonsense. Perhaps Brendan Nelson, the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, can pen a cogent 270 word rebuttal?