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No One is Coming to Save Us

Good morning, all. This is the final blog for the year apart from tomorrow’s podcast. I am probably going to do one or two blogs if and when big news comes up during the summer (and we at HESA will have some big event-related news fairly shortly, so stay tuned). As usual, all feedback and suggestions for the blog are welcome—just drop me a note at president at higher ed strategy dot com. Regular daily service will return on Tuesday

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June 12, 2024 No Comments

Early 2024 Book Reviews

Morning all. You know the drill: twice a year I report on the books I’ve read in the past six months. Today is my summer 2024 edition. Here goes. Let’s start with the non-higher ed stuff, because let’s face it, that’s what you’re all really going to read in the summer. On the fiction side, do read Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, which won the international Booker prize last month. And if you like Francis Spufford (Golden Hill, Light Perpetual and above all, Red Plenty, the

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June 11, 2024 No Comments

One Thought Plus One More

Good morning, all. This is the last week of the blog before summer begins. As usual, you’ll get my mid-year sign-off on Wednesday and my set of book reviews tomorrow. But today, I have two quick items to get off my chest (originally I had four, but I guess the other two will have to wait until September). To wit: 1) Bad Policy Incoming As I noted back here, the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Canada (IRCC) has, though a

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June 10, 2024 No Comments

Illiberal Universities

One of the most interesting stories in global higher education over the past couple of years has been the creeping government takeover of higher education in Hungary. The most famous example of this was the government expelling the George Soros-funded Central European University, which subsequently took up residence in Austria. Less well-known perhaps is the process of severing public universities from the state and creating Foundation universities. For the most part this meant giving institutions North American-style managerial and financial

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June 6, 2024 No Comments

A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 2

Just a note that I am at the CAUBO Conference in Montreal today…if you are attending, do drop by my session today after lunch and say “hi.” Yesterday I sketched out a possible research agenda for Canadian higher education. Today, I am going to sketch out how we can best achieve this. What needs to be done at the National level The most important thing we could do is replace the Youth In Transition Survey. This was a longitudinal survey which followed

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June 5, 2024 1 Comment

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