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Quick Update on Research Funding

Remember the spring budget, when the Federal government announced a heavily back-ended $1.8 billion (spread over five years) boost to research grant funding, as well as the creation of a capstone research organization which might have its own funds to co-ordinate challenge-based research? Well, the federal government has recently been fleshing out these announcements through a series of badly coordinated media releases. And so today, we’re going to go on a quick government press release safari to try to work

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December 2, 2024 1 Comment

From 36,000 to 12,000: Tracking the Decline in EU Students Post-Brexit with Paul Wakeling

Eight and a half years ago, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.  Among many, many other consequences, that meant the UK voted to change the status of tens of thousands of European students from “domestic” to “international” students, with all the financial disadvantages that entailed. You see, within the European Union all students, regardless of where they are from are considered “domestic”, and must be treated no differently that students from the country.  In

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November 28, 2024 No Comments

Talking about Corridors

If you’re in Ontario and are paying attention to the discussions around lobbying the provincial government for more money, you may have heard words to the effect of “we need to get rid of the corridor” or “we need to get rid of the cap.” This post is a small plea for everyone in Ontario to eliminate this phrase from their vocabularies immediately and start using more straightforward language instead. Some background on how the way the enrolment-based portion of

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November 27, 2024 1 Comment

Institutional Mergers: A Marginal Solution

One of the things I often hear in Canada is that we have “too many universities” or “too many colleges” and that we would all be better off if we just got rid of a few of them. In fact, according to my little birds, this view now also seems to be orthodoxy in the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, which doesn’t want to see another Laurentian (once is careless, twice looks like incompetence) but at the same time

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November 26, 2024 5 Comments

Nova Scotia Manifesto Analysis 2024

I thought I was done with election pieces for a while, but apparently Tim Houston wanted to get in an election this year (I guess it’s easier to run as a provincial Conservative while an obviously flailing Liberal administration is still in power in Ottawa), and so here we are with an election tomorrow and me with one more of these blogs to write. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for the sector, the parties have conspired to keep this one

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November 25, 2024 1 Comment

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