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State of Postsecondary Education in Canada 2023

Rejoice, all!  For today is the publication for The State of Postsecondary in Education, 2023, your annual statistical guide to all things in our sector.  This year’s edition does not contain any new chapters or appendices, but we have expanded coverage of certain matters related to the student body, particularly with respect to gender and to international students.   With hundreds of pages and graphs, I know you’re going to be up all night reading it.  Try not to strain yourselves. 

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September 6, 2023 4 Comments

Back to School, September 2023

Good morning, and welcome back for another year.  I’m pretty excited for the next few months.  Let me take you through how things are going to go, both in Canadian postsecondary education and here on the blog. In an ideal world, the next few months would lead to an all-out push on new investments in scientific research.  The buying power of national investments in research – which were still pretty good as recently as 15 years ago – are now

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September 5, 2023 No Comments

HESA Roundtable: Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

Good afternoon everyone. Apologies for the intrusion, but I just wanted to give an update on a project we started a couple of weeks ago. You might remember me promoting a roundtable discussion on Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Models (AI/LLMs) in higher education a few weeks back. It was pretty successful: 177 people from all across the country joined in to discuss their thoughts on how AI/LLMs might change the post-secondary landscape and – more practically – what a pan-Canadian inter-institutional

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June 22, 2023 No Comments

Admissions, Affirmative Action, and SCOTUS

Later this month, the Supreme Court of the United States of America will be rendering a judgement that could upend the system of admissions at flagship and elite private universities. Back in January, the court heard arguments about cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, where race is used as one among many criteria for judging prospective students. Admissions has long been a faultline for racial politics in the United States. As Jerome Karabel noted in his

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June 15, 2023 No Comments

Sayonara, Ko’rishguncha, Қош болыңыз!

Morning all.  It’s summertime and it’s time to wrap things up.  Tomorrow, you will be getting our final podcast for the season – an interview with Yale Professor Zachary Bleemer on the upcoming US Supreme Course decision on university admissions (it’s a good one!).  But today is the last post of year 12 (time flies!) of the blog, and tradition demands I give a summing up and a look forward.  The summing up is pretty simple.  When people look back

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June 14, 2023 3 Comments

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