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Saskatchewan Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Alex Usher October 28, 2024 No Comments

Hi all. Third of three manifesto analyses for this ballot-iest of Octobers, this time Saskatchewan which goes to the polls today. This one might be the simplest one yet, mainly because Saskatchewan elections—like those in the other two Prairie provinces—are a resolutely two-party affair. It has been 25 years since

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The Fifteen: October 25, 2024

Higher Education Strategy Associates October 25, 2024 No Comments

Welcome back to the fourth edition of The Fifteen As usual, we’re taking a trip around the world of higher education to check in on the trends and stories that are shaping the sector. We’re heavy on US stories this week, but still some interesting tidbits from places as far

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 18, 2024)

Sandrine Desforges October 18, 2024 No Comments

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be working on refreshing our online repositoryof policies and guidelines from Canadian and global post-secondary institutions. If your institutions’ resources are not yet on our website, or if the ones that are there are no longer the most updated

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Carnage

Alex Usher October 16, 2024 19 Comments

Y’all may recall January 22nd, when federal Immigration Marc Miller slapped a national cap on international student visas which implied a 35% cut (but larger in Ontario) and effectively killed off the PPP industry for (mainly Ontario) community colleges. You may also recall September 16th, when Miller returned to say “surprise! Now

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New Brunswick Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Alex Usher October 15, 2024 No Comments

Good morning, everyone. Hope you had a good weekend. The New Brunswick election is a mere week away, so let’s get to our platform analysis. I’m restricting the analysis to the three parties with an outside shot of actually winning a seat—the Greens, the Conservatives and the Liberals—and yes, I

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The Fifteen: October 11, 2024

Higher Education Strategy Associates October 11, 2024 No Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Fifteen, with a new list of ongoing and developing stories from around the world of higher education. The ongoing internationalization controversy, increasingly commercial education offerings and a tightening funding environment are not unique to Canada, and by tracking global trends in higher ed

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Estimating Employment in the Higher Education Sector

Alex Usher October 9, 2024 1 Comment

For many years, I have been making the point that Canada has very little good data on employment in the higher education sector. We have a national annual tally, based on administrative data, of ranked academic faculty in universities from a system called UCASS, or the University and College Academic

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British Columbia Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Alex Usher October 8, 2024 1 Comment

British Columbia goes to the polls on October 19th, and so it’s time to take a look at what the parties are saying about universities, colleges, and students. You’re about to get a lot of these because we have three provincial elections going on simultaneously (New Brunswick votes on the

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