HESA | Higher Education Strategy Associates

2013 Budget Commentary
Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized University Rankings 2012
Making the Most of It: Canadian Student Employment in Summer 2012
Making Research Count: Analyzing Canadian Academic Publishing Cultures 2012-Bibliometrics-and-Publication-Culture-HESA.pdf
Jobs Don’t Come to Those Who Wait: the Search for Student Summer Employment in Canada summer_employment_2012.pdf

A Rare Piece of Good Policy in Quebec

So, although it wasn’t widely noticed at the time, one really excellent piece of policy came out of the crap-fest that was the Quebec Education Summit, a couple of weeks ago; it’s a policy that deserves a great deal of … Read More →
Bad Arguments for Basic Research

Last week’s announcement that the NRC was “open for business” has, if nothing else, revealed how shockingly weak most of the arguments are in favour of “basic” research.

Opponents of the NRC move have basically taken one of two rhetorical … Read More →
Post-Graduation Employment

The meme on “underperforming universities” these days revolves around the idea that specific fields of study – usually Bachelor’s degrees in the humanities – do not lead to good jobs. But this depends in no small measure on what one … Read More →