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Higher Education Strategy Associates

Announcements

September 01

Introducing the Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor

HESA is proud to introduce the inaugural edition of The Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor. The Monitor’s mission is to tell the story of how higher education leaders – primarily at the institutional level, but also at the national level – are using strategy to improve their institutions and systems. We complement existing day-to-day news sources by taking a longer view, focusing on how institutions and governments choose to leverage particular strengths or make targeted investments to drive long-term innovations and quality improvement in higher education.

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August 26

Saskatchewan Degree-Granting Consultations Final Report Released

The Government of Saskatchewan has released the final report of its consultations on the expansion of degree-granting status in the province. HESA President Alex Usher led the consultations and authored the final report.

The report includes three common themes:

  1. that there is widespread misunderstanding of what degree-granting expansion may entail;
  2. there is substantial concern about duplication of services, especially in more expensive programs; and
  3. that there is widespread support for, and trust in the province’s two universities.
It concludes with the following recommendations:
  • A quality assurance board should be established for reviewing new degree programs at institutions other than the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan.
  • Institutions other than the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan should be able to offer degree programs if approved by the quality assurance board.
  • The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina should not need approval for new degree programs, but would benefit from a periodic quality audit system.
  • A competitive process should be developed to determine which public institutions should offer new degree programs in areas of emerging professional practice.
Read a copy of the report here. For more information not the consultation process, click here. Alex’s reflections on the consultation process can be found in HESA’s One Thought to Start Your Day blog.

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August 23

Welcome to HESA’s New Website

Higher Education Strategy Associates is pleased to welcome you to its new website. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll be adding some exciting features, including the entire International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project library. In the meantime, feel free to visit our new blog, One Thought to Start Your Day, which you can receive in your inbox each morning by subscribing to our newsletter here.

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