The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

Tag: Innovation

How Canada Discusses Post-Secondary Education

We have an exciting little announcement for our BC and ON subscribers today – see the bottom of this blog for more details on ways we are supporting discussions and convening in the Canadian PSE sector. One of the things that distinguishes Canadian post-secondary education from those in other anglophone countries is – for lack of a better term – the difficulties we have in sustaining a national discourse on the sector. This matters a lot, I think. A lack

Read More »
January 13, 2026 2 Comments

Utrecht, Georgetown, Manchester

I’ve been poking around a lot of university websites from around the globe recently – mainly but not exclusively because I’m putting the finishing touches to The World of Higher Education – Year in Review (due out December 4th and it’s going to be great). And, in the course of all this poking around, I have found a few little gems of institutional initiatives which I found particularly intriguing.  The kinds of things that make you wonder: why don’t more

Read More »
November 3, 2025 1 Comment

Testing Times & Interesting Discussions

Last week, The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) put out a discussion paper called Testing Times: Fending Off A Crisis in Post-Secondary Education, which in part is the outcome of a set of cross-country discussions held this summer by RBC, HESA, and the Business Higher Education Roundtable. (BHER). The paper, I think, sums up the current situation pretty well: the system is not at a starvation point but is heading in that direction pretty quickly and that needs to be

Read More »
September 24, 2025 4 Comments

One Thought to Start Your Day

One Thought to Start Your Day is our founder and CEO Alex Usher’s popular daily blog, brimming with up-to-the-minute insights and informed opinions on today’s higher education industry.

Subscribe

Search Posts

Search Publications

Social Media

Linkedin Youtube Spotify

Recent Posts

More thoughts on...