Welcome to our blog

We are PR guys working for Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. We are both journalists by trade, but one of us isn't so much anymore.

This blog will provide you with occasional insights, not so much, and stories, lots of them, about our little university hanging off the Western edge of the Great White North, also known as Canada.

Our next big event is Thursday, May 24 when world famous artist Robert Bateman will unveil a collection of sketchbooks and art, most of which hasn't been seen by a mass audience. We'll be using Flickr and YouTube to post video and stills of this event.

Author Andrew Cohen, who wrote the book the Unfinished Canadian will be here on June 7. So stay tuned for that. His new book has been called incendiary by at least one person. We are both looking forward to it...well, one of us is.

Royal Roads University was established over 10 years ago as a special purpose university aimed at serving the knowledge needs of working professionals in Victoria, British Columbia and Canada. We now offer mostly master's degrees in Business, Leadership, Communication, Emergency Management, Conflict Management, Human Security and Peacebuilding, Environmental Science and Management and Communication, Tourism and Hotel Management and more...we have three full time on-campus programs that run 12 months in Communications, Environmental Science and Commerce. Most of the students that take these programs are upgrading college degrees and completing years two and three of a university degree in one year. The rest of our programs are a combination of online and face to face, which allows people to do a degree while working and living at home. We have the equivalent of around 2,000 full time students a year and around 3,000 students total. In the words of Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe, we might not be big, but we're small. We're also making a big impact. We have nearly 10,000 alumni out there in the workforce across the province, the country and around the world.

Since the two of us will be the main contributors to this blog, you can try to guess who is writing what. We hope you'll enjoy the ride.

Cheers,

Phil and Ted