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The Fifteen: January 24, 2025

Welcome back to The Fifteen, your source for news from around the world of higher education. In this edition, we’re taking a look at increases in tuition in Iran and Korea, as well as the development of an AI-focused university in Nigeria. We’re also following as another student movement takes on their government in Serbia. You may remember in the first edition of the Fifteen, we covered a similar story from Bangladesh, but interestingly, this isn’t the first time Serbian

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January 24, 2025 No Comments

The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence? with Michael Shattock

Higher education is famously isomorphic. Around the world, knowledge is divided into disciplines in almost identical ways. Around the world, students go through a largely similar bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate sequence. And around the world, higher education institutions are heavily stratified, mainly according to their research outputs. Higher education institutions aren’t exactly homogenous. But the systems they live in, what they do, what they cover, et cetera, are substantially similar, except for one thing. Governance. Governance can mean a few things

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January 23, 2025 No Comments

Les Quinze Glorieuses: Understanding the History of Québec Universities (Part 3)

(There is no point in you reading today’s piece if you missed Monday’s and Tuesday’s installments on the history of Québec Universities. Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2.) After the original four campuses of the UQ network—Montreal, Trois-Rivieres, Chicoutimi and ENAP e system—opened in 1968, the UQ system continued to grow at a healthy clip. The Rimouski campus opened in 1969. Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Hull got “centres d’études universitaires,” which didn’t end up becoming universities until the early 1980s

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January 22, 2025 No Comments

Les Quinze Glorieuses: Understanding the History of Québec Universities (Part 2)

(If you didn’t read yesterday’s piece, you’re going to be lost. Catch up with Part 1.) It’s 1960. Québec has six universities—three English and three French—all of them private, and the French trio explicitly clerical (all the Presidents were priests). But the Union National regime has fallen, replaced with a technocratic Liberal government with a mandate to move Québec in a modernist direction. And although it wasn’t an explicitly nationalist government, it certainly had national concerns on its mind (René

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January 21, 2025 1 Comment

Les Quinze Glorieuses: Understanding the History of Québec Universities (Part 1)

Over the past few months I have been reading quite a lot of history about Québec universities. And I am pretty blown away by the way that the entire system transmogrified itself in a very short space of time between (roughly) 1960 and 1975. Though expansion in that period was obviously substantial in other parts of Canada, I would argue that nowhere else was there anything like the degree of systemic change in the nature of universities that took place in

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January 20, 2025 No Comments

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