Then there’s university salaries, which are through the roof, with layers and layers of administrators and professors earning into the $400,000-plus range, not to mention the millions spent each year on travel to conferences or to host events - spending that is well beyond what one sees in the private sector. It is extremely entertaining, features interesting political simulation and is carefully decorated by satire, irony and in some places almost NetHack-esque DevTeamThinksOfEverything.
I have friends who are profs and this is a nice perk for them, but is it right? At a time when tuition is beyond the reach of many young British Columbians and many are graduating with massive student loans, why should the offspring of wealthy professors making significant six-figure salaries at public institutions be given tens of thousands of dollars in free tuition? Talk about to the manor born.ĭo you remember the uproar when it was discovered that postal workers, cops, firefighters and other government workers were getting free bus rides? That policy was eliminated but it was a pittance compared to free university degrees for the kids of public-sector workers. I wonder how many taxpayers know that the children of highly-paid university professors and staff receive free undergraduate and graduate tuition? Here’s another example of what happens at universities, largely because of not enough public oversight and too great a sense of entitlement. Just how much PR does a public-sector business school need? How much of that cost is “spent on students?” 40 million for upgrades at the Berwick campus of Federation University. They will also look after “agency relationships, freelance writers, photographers, videographers and other contractors as needed.” to become a Detective Senior Constable at the Organised Crime Squad. UBC’s Sauder School of Business is currently advertising nationally for an “associate director, communications and media relations” who will report to “the assistant dean, marketing and communications.” The person who wins the job will manage “two communications specialists, a social-media specialist and student employees,” according to the posting. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.