Your views: on a uni going it alone and more
Today, readers comment on the Adelaide university not merging, a beachside pool, failed space hub and Myanmar.
Flinders University launches its gold box campaign in Rundle Mall. Photo: supplied
Commenting on the story: Flinders Uni’s golden opportunity amid big merger
What a pleasure to read about the status, strengths, CBD expansion and ambitions of Flinders University.
I am sure there is great relief amongst alumni and former academic staff (like me) that this innovative and very special institution has not been lured into the ill-fated mega-merger of the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia.
When I joined the new Flinders Medical School in 1975, we ushered in a new Australian era in teaching, training and research, and dragged these aspects of medicine in Adelaide kicking and screaming into the twentieth century. The broader aspects of this ethos have distinguished Flinders from its fellow universities in community value and teaching and research at all levels.
Whilst the new monolithic and mammoth tertiary institution struggles to find its place in the firmament, Flinders will continue to flourish in its academic role as Adelaide’s most valuable and innovative university. It will be a travesty if its financial and government support is eroded by misplaced preferential support for the populist creation of a merged institution. – Warren Jones
Commenting on the story: Seaside pool designs revealed for Hallett Cove
This is a bad idea and will ruin a natural beach. Leave it in its natural state.
If people want to swim in a pool then swim in the sea or go to an established inland swimming pool. – Eric Harris
Commenting on the story: Adelaide Airport’s Australian Space Park fails to launch
How disappointing is it to read this story, such a small amount of money the Government has refused to put in, for such an important resource.
Billions on roads, half a billion turning two universities into one, millions for Instagrammers to party down south. Nothing for a program which would obviously have fitted in well with the idea of smart universities and commensurate jobs in the State for those who want to stay.
Evidently the fallout is immediate, costly and far-reaching. – Cathy Chua
Commenting on the opinion piece: Turning our backs on a regional nightmare
Thank you for making sure that we remember and act on the plight of the Myanmar people. Their unimaginable suffering and repression is abhorrent. It is difficult for ordinary Australians to know what they can do to effect change. Please tell us. – Joanne Fox
