In short, the best way to make things easier over the short term would be to increase our capacity to award degrees.
Most students come to Moncton when it’s time to do placements, for example. So we’re short on placement spots. Being closer to the District scolaire francophone du Nord‑Ouest and the District scolaire francophone Nord‑Est would increase the number of placement opportunities.
The rector spoke of a retention rate of 90% in nursing. I don’t have the statistics, but I’m almost certain that everyone who starts a teaching program in Edmundston or Shippagan works in the province after graduating, and that almost all work in the region where they were trained.
The campuses participated in a strategic planning exercise and it became clear that, obviously, if the campuses in the north of the province did not exist, they would need to be built.