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Scholarly Outputs

Every couple of years, I do an analysis of Candian university research ouptut data from the Leiden rankings, which always provide excellent and transparent data on publications and citations linked to each university. And, well, it’s that time again. So let’s dive in. My first comparison is just about simple production: how many papers came out of each university? Figure 1 shows the data from the period 2020-2023. This graph doesn’t change much over time: Toronto is always way, way,

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November 17, 2025 4 Comments

The Fifteen: November 14, 2025

A quick reminder before we get to our regularly scheduled programming: On Wednesday, I told you about the National Defence Research Roundtable HESA is proposing to host on December 15 in Ottawa. We’ll be closing the expression of interest form at 3pm EST today. Interested in joining us? Click here and let us know. Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. 1. In Greece, the

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November 14, 2025 No Comments

Inside the Global Private Higher Education Sector with Dan Levy

If you spend any time around higher education in multiple countries, you’ll know two things. The first is that public higher education tends to look pretty similar from one country to another. And second, the status of private higher education varies enormously. How big the sector is, the ownership forms, the missions, the delivery modes, can all vary quite significantly. Private higher education occupies both the top and the bottom of the global prestige hierarchy. At the one end, you’ve

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November 13, 2025 No Comments

Defence/Security Research

I have some news today about a new HESA initiative to convene a National Defence Research Roundtable. More details at the end of the blog. But first, a bit of context on the defence and security research landscape. In recent months, the Government of Canada has committed the country to meeting the NATO Defence Spending Pledge. This pledge is for all members to spend 5% of their respective GDP on core defence requirements and broader defence- and security-related spending by

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November 12, 2025 1 Comment

Budget Redux: Student Visas

Since last Tuesday, there have been a lot of stories (like this one and this one) talking about how the federal government is reducing the number of new student visas and, as a corollary, how this will negatively impact college and university finances. Many people have asked me why the HESA budget blog didn’t make a bigger deal out of this last week. The answer is: we did in fact write about it in the full Budget Commentary (pages 7-8),

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November 11, 2025 1 Comment

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