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The New Decliners

Morning all. Next week, we will be launching The World of Higher Education – Year in Review 2025, which is our new global equivalent to The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada. As a document, it’s less data-driven and somewhat more narrative-driven than what you might be used to from HESA, but we think that you’ll enjoy it. And, as a treat today, I wanted to show you some of the data, specifically on enrolment, which suggests that big changes

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November 26, 2025 No Comments

Factors Changing the Face of Global Student Mobility

The following is an adaptation of a talk I gave at the Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAEI), sponsored by the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), in San José, Costa Rica last month. My thanks to David Julien and the organizers for the invitation. There is a lot of armchair quarterbacking when it comes to international student flows. There are some consultants – and some media outlets out there – who think it’s possible to predict these flows, but

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November 25, 2025 1 Comment

What We Do and Why We Do It

After fifteen years of writing this blog, I pause and look back every now and then at those first posts. Back then, it was just me writing about a sector I had already spent much of my career working in, sharing whatever I thought might help people stay informed, provoked, or at least amused before their first coffee of the day. Over time, I have come to realise that a surprising number of people assume my job is simply writing

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November 24, 2025 1 Comment

Focus Friday: November 21

Hi everyone, Tiffany here. A quick reminder that Focus Friday is happening today (November 21) from 12:30-1:30pm Eastern, and we’re taking on one of your most requested topics: AI readiness. I’ll be joined by Stephanie Enders, Chief Delivery Officer at Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), who has been leading national conversations on applied AI, workforce development, and what it really takes for institutions and communities to adopt AI responsibly and effectively. Together, we’ll look at how AI is being implemented on the ground:

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November 21, 2025 No Comments

A Global Observatory for Higher Education Change: What We’re Learning

As you know, this show is dedicated to a global perspective on higher education; one that tries to encompass the entire globe. But covering the entire planet is difficult. There are a lot of countries out there, and there are very few trends which are truly universal. That means you need to track lots of developments and policies that are overlapping, complicated and contradictory — and that’s hard! I know — I’ve been writing our World Higher Education, Year in Review publication (out on

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November 20, 2025 No Comments

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