Auditor general flags Royal Military College for costs, cadet behaviour
OTTAWA — The Royal Military College of Canada has taken another blow to its reputation, this time from the federal auditor general, who is flagging problems with the school’s costs and the behaviour of its senior cadets.
The prestigious university’s primary purpose is to groom and educate the military’s next generation of leaders, which it has been doing in Kingston, Ont., for the last 140 years.
But in a report released Tuesday, auditor general Michael Ferguson said it costs almost twice as much to educate and train aspiring officers at the college as it does to send them through a civilian university.
The federal government spent approximately $400,000 to put a cadet through a four-year degree at the college, compared with approximately $240,000 at a civilian university.