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Better Feedback
Universities (and to a lesser extent colleges) are sometimes accused of being change-resistant. Various stakeholders have lots of valuable feedback to give, so the critique goes, but institutions Just. Don’t Listen. This critique has some merit but misses the mark in some major ways. Institutions solicit and receive feedback all the
What’s Left of the Bologna Process
Last week, Ministers responsible for higher education from the 48 countries, constituting the members of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), met in Paris for the regular triennial “Bologna Process Ministerial Conference”. Which was odd, because the substantive bits of the Bologna Process have been over for about a decade
Ontario (Dumpster Fire) Manifesto Analysis
You may have heard that there is an election on in Ontario. I tried my best to leave the province for the duration but I’m back now, and holy Moses I wish I weren’t. It is truly godawful. A dumpster fire, as the kids say. But duty calls, and so,
Faculty and Boards of Governors
While I was away having fun in Japan (the sumo was excellent, btw), the Canadian Association of University Teachers released a report called Board of Governors Structures at Thirty-One Canadian Universities ,which is well worth a gander. As is often the case with CAUT’s stuff, it’s a mix of very useful and
FutureSkills Lab: Told You So.
A short one today because I’m still theoretically on vacation and have to catch a train (Nagano!) Remember that RFP I told you le tout Ottawa was talking about? It’s out. You can read it in all its glory here. Apparently, the government thinks there is some non-profit organization out there (provincial governments and
Better Know a Higher Ed System: Japan (3)
Japan is one of the world’s most hierarchical societies. You could have a pretty good argument about whether or not this is an artefact of the Tokugawa bakufu of the 17th century or if it goes back to the Kamakura regime of the 12th – 14th centuries, but either way, it’s been that way
Better Know a Higher Ed System: Japan (Part 2)
We all know that Japan is a technological leader, right? An “innovation nation”? And we all know innovation comes from universities, right? So Japanese universities must be kind of god-like in their innovation abilities, right? Right? Well, no, not exactly. Or not the way Canadian universities think about the term,
Better Know a Higher Ed System: Japan (Part 1)
I haven’t done one of these in awhile and since I’m vacationing here, so it seems like it’s time. Japan is a fascinating country for any number of reasons, but one of them is that it has played technological catch-up with the west not once but twice, and in both
Good Things
I am in a very good mood today, what with tomorrow being the start of a 2-week holiday in Tokyo which includes plenty of sumo (my daughter, the family expert, is predicting Hakuho 白鵬 to win the yūshō in a canter and Tochinoshin 栃ノ心 to win the 10 matches needed for promotion to ōzeki). I’ll be off blogging next week
Financial Barriers
Following on from yesterday’s blog about Human Capital Theory, I thought it would be worth talking a little more broadly about financial barriers to higher education and what we mean by that term. Because there are at least three different phenomena at work, and much too much policy confuses the
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