The Fifteen: January 30, 2026
Hi all. The Fifteen is back with the choicest higher education stories from around the world over the past two weeks. That’s all for now: see you back here in two weeks.
January 30, 2026
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Hi all. The Fifteen is back with the choicest higher education stories from around the world over the past two weeks. That’s all for now: see you back here in two weeks.
Uzbekistan is not a country that intrudes on western consciousness very much. If people think of Uzbekistan at all, they tend to think of it for its past glories. Perhaps they know a little bit about for the Silk Road cities of Tashkent and Bokhara, or the brilliant city of Samarkand, whose Registan and grand Observatory, built by the Scientist-King Ulugh Beg, briefly made the region the world’s centre of astronomy and mathematics in the early fifteenth-century. But since the silk road
The world of transnational education – that is, the provision of education in one country by universities based abroad – is getting very interesting these days. In particular, branch campuses have returned to the centre of the industry’s activities in a way they have not been for well over a decade. Canada’s post-secondary system – which has always been a laggard in this area – risks getting left even further behind, unless institutions up their game substantially in the next
It’s application season, so I thought I would put some thought together on the factors that drive applications. I hope you enjoy it. How and when do young people choose to go to post-secondary education? This is one of those questions that made sense thirty years ago, but now it’s just not all that interesting. Most students in high school know they are staying in school after grade 12. It’s not a decision, it’s just something they absorb from their
This blog doubles as an invitation to a very cool event in Ottawa on March 23rd. See the end of blog for details. If there is anything Canada should take from President Trump’s deeply disturbing rants about Greenland over the past couple of weeks, it is that our country is very definitely a target. The fascist government in power in the United States genuinely believes both that might makes right and that the entire hemisphere is rightfully theirs. The threat to national
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