The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

Author: Alex Usher

Higher Education in a Polarized World with Simon Marginson

Welcome back to our third season of this podcast on global higher education affairs.  If like many of our fans you consume this podcast as text, you probably won’t notice much change.  But if you’re actually watching me right now, you’ll know that we have made the jump from audio to video.  It’s an absolutely naked attempt to tap into youtube and its larger audiences.  We hope you like the format change.  At the start of a new season it’s always a

Read More »
September 5, 2024 No Comments

The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2024

Morning all. It’s the Wednesday after Labour Day and that means, as usual, that it’s release day for The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, by Janet Balfour and yours truly (with a big assist from Jiwoo Jeon). You can download it in all its glory here. In many recent years, I have used this document to talk about international students and the increasing role they play in Canadian post-secondary finance, but I figure you guys have probably heard that

Read More »
September 4, 2024 3 Comments

Welcome Back. Let’s Go!

Hi everyone. I missed you guys! Welcome to Season 14 of Canada’s longest-running data-informed higher education rant. Time flies, doesn’t it? Last year’s experiment of replacing one blog a week with a podcast seems to have gone pretty well so we’ll be continuing that. Our Friday blogs on Artificial Intelligence will be shifting to bi-weekly so we can deliver more detailed analysis and coverage on that subject. On alternate Fridays, we will be providing you with a new feature, The

Read More »
September 3, 2024 5 Comments

Save the Date: HESA’s AI-CADEMY Summit

Hi everyone, Hope you are all having a great summer. Just wanted to drop a line to let you know about a big new HESA initiative.   As you may know, over the past year, HESA has been maintaining an Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education and hosting regular Roundtables on the same topic. Even if we’re skeptical that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is anywhere near the horizon (count me with Gary Marcus on this one), it’s quite clear that

Read More »
July 15, 2024 No Comments

Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China with William C. Kirby

The history of the research university is a much-discussed thing. Fundamentally, these histories tend to focus on two countries: Germany, where it all began in 1810 thanks to the genius of Wilhelm von Humboldt, and the United States, which took fitful steps towards challenging Germany from the 1870s to the 1930s, at which point American universities, taking advantage of the exodus of scientific talent from Europe, moved decisively into a position of global intellectual leadership. And so things stayed for

Read More »
June 13, 2024 No 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...