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Letter from China

A quick reminder before we get to our regularly scheduled programming: Last week, I told you about the National Defence Research Roundtable HESA is hosting on December 15 in Ottawa. Some of you missed the expression of interest window, so we’re reopening the form until 12pm on Thursday. You can expect to hear from us about registration later this week.  I just spent the last week visiting China. It’s been a trip in more ways than one. My first couple

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November 19, 2025 No Comments

Profit, Education, and Student Grants

One of the less-noticed measures in the November 4 budget had to do with restrictions on student loans. Specifically, it was about banning students attending for-profit institutions from accessing grants provided by the Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (CSFAP). Today, I want to examine the rationale behind this move and its likely effects. But first, some history. CSFAP did not always have a big investment in grants. In fact, it had none at all for the first thirty years of its

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November 18, 2025 1 Comment

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

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