The Tele

Look, I hate the Telegraph. I really do. The think about it though is that it just keeps on giving me reasons to hate it. Like this article here today. Poor old ND, being bashed like that. What trollop! It was thus good to see this reply from a James Dredge from Bathurst:

It is good to see that the facts do not get in the way of a ‘good story’ when you have a chip on your shoulder Maralyn. After reading your article in regards to the cost of Notre Dame I compared it to one of the best public Universities in Australia that you identified, Sydney. The most expensive degree quoted at Notre Dame is a Law Degree, and as a full fee course will be $8950 in 2008 (It would appear Notre Dame only has full fee courses, except for the CSS places you mentioned). A full fee law degree at USYD for 2008 is $20697. I assume that the figure you quoted in your article, the average fee, was a total of the entire degree at ND for something like law, so $44 750. What you fail to acknowledge is that as a full fee student at Sydney you would be left with a bill of $103 485. It would appear that the ‘Rich Private University’ would be more affordable then the Public University. Also, you mentioned the Nursing places at USYD and UTS. Sydney is closing its Nursing school at Mallet street (Undergrad has been gone for some time), and the majority of UTS’s places for Nursing are at its Ku-Ring-Gai Campus. You really have missed the ball with a lot of your facts, but the real shame is that it isn’t even a good story.

Good on you James. Excellent reply.

Enough of that, let's keep it Vanilla. Here is a photo that is a little more fruity though, thought it would be good fun to role with. I have been using Paint a lot more often lately for posters and the like; I like to find the most random shots I can find and put them up... hence this.

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