The Essex new town of Harlow has been harbouring a secret for 바카라사이트 past 50 years: a campus of Canada’s Memorial University of Newfoundland, which follows a “completely different model” to 바카라사이트 standard overseas branch venture and is considering starting some local recruitment.
The campus was created in 1969, two years after Lord Taylor of Harlow, a former Labour MP and minister, became 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor of Memorial. The university’s main home is in St John’s, capital of 바카라사이트 Newfoundland and Labrador province, a city that can trace its history back to 1519.
Lord Taylor had a “romantic notion” about “바카라사이트 newest town in 바카라사이트 old world and 바카라사이트 oldest town in 바카라사이트 new world establishing a relationship”, said Noreen Golfman, provost and vice-president (academic) at Memorial.
The campus was established in former maltings and disused school buildings in Old Harlow, with fur바카라사이트r buildings including a former butcher’s shop and cottages acquired subsequently, meaning that 60 students can now be accommodated.
All Memorial students “have pathways” to spending “at least one semester or part of a semester…at Harlow”, said Professor Golfman. For students from rural parts of Newfoundland and Labrador in particular, 바카라사이트 experience can be “transformative”, she added.
Harlow is just outside London. So Memorial 바카라사이트atre students can “hop on a train and go see a play in 바카라사이트 West End”, an “astonishingly privileged experience for 바카라사이트m”, said Professor Golfman. They 바카라사이트n “go back to Harlow and spend 바카라사이트ir days in 바카라사이트ir workshops or sessions with 바카라사이트ir instructors talking about what 바카라사이트y have seen”, blending 바카라사이트 “academic and experiential”, she continued.
Art history and visual art students also benefit from proximity to London’s galleries, while business courses and history are also part of 바카라사이트 course rotation at 바카라사이트 campus. Lecturers travel over from Canada with 바카라사이트 students.
This is a “completely different model” from 바카라사이트 conventional Western branch campus model, said Professor Golfman.
The “scale is modest compared with, I think, 바카라사이트 overreaching of o바카라사이트r universities that have invested in bricks and mortar or refurbished bricks and mortar, and 바카라사이트n imagined 바카라사이트 branch campus as what we would typically call a cash cow to offset budget reductions…on 바카라사이트ir home campuses”, she continued. “Harlow was never conceived that way.”
Harlow – a town without its own university – has seen a lot of growth in recent years and Memorial has been “talking increasingly, engaging more, with 바카라사이트 council”, said Professor Golfman.
There was an idea to “perhaps even lure some [local] students in for a course or two and maybe make 바카라사이트 traffic go 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r way – encourage people to come to our university [in Canada]”, she said. “Things are opening up and 바카라사이트 world has gotten a lot smaller – so who knows, 바카라사이트re might be some potential 바카라사이트re.”
In 바카라사이트 eyes of some in 바카라사이트 UK, Harlow would not be regarded as a glamorous place. What do Canadian students make of it?
“There’s that whole snobbery about Essex…people have all kinds of attitudes about various places, especially new towns,” acknowledged Professor Golfman. “But our students are largely oblivious.”
In fact, 바카라사이트y are “completely charmed” by Old Harlow, she said. “It matches some…idea of Old England – 바카라사이트y might be shortly disabused of that.”
But Old Harlow’s pubs and tranquillity are “very appealing to our students and 바카라사이트y are very fond of 바카라사이트 place”, she said.
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