Over the years I have collected, for your amusement, a number of different descriptors and metaphors for a universities: “a group … Continued
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Ah, MOOCs. The decade’s most over-hyped higher education fad: indeed, possibly the most ludicrously over-hyped fad the sector has ever … Continued
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One of the problems in being a university manager is this assumption that being in charge of all or part … Continued
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Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas”; that is, the stories people in organizations…
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A couple of days ago I discussed the choice Canadian institutions had between pursuing an international student market and serving local communities. … Continued
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