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The Coming Federal Cuts – Part 1

The biggest thing everyone is going to be talking about this year – barring another university doing a surprise Laurentian – is the set of federal cuts coming down the pike. They are big. And they are nasty. So, it’s worth understanding exactly the scale of what is heading in our direction. This is going to be a three-parter. Today, I will talk about the overall size of the cuts to come, and on Tuesday and Wednesday I will talk

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September 8, 2025 1 Comment

The Fifteen: September 5, 2025

Welcome back to year two of the Fifteen. I think I’ve got the hang of this finally, so I think this will be a much better product now.  Without further ado then, some of the world’s biggest higher ed stories from the last three weeks or so.   That’s all folks.  See you back here in two weeks.

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September 5, 2025 No Comments

From Funding Formulas to AI: Pedro Teixeira on Higher Education’s Next Challenges

Welcome back to our fourth season. Time Flies. We’ve gone back to an audio only format ’cause apparently y’all are audio and bibliophiles and not videophiles, so we decided to chuck the extra editing burden. Other than that, though, it’s the same show. Bring you stories on higher education from all around the world. So, let’s get to it. Today’s guest is Pedro Teixeira. He’s a higher education scholar from the University of Porto in Portugal, focusing to a large

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September 4, 2025 No Comments

The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2025

Hi all. Today, HESA is releasing the eighth edition of The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, co-authored by myself and HESA’s Jiwoo Jeon and Janet Balfour. Many thanks to our partners – Pearson, Studiosity, Duolingo, Capio, Element451 and Riipen – for supporting this year’s edition. You probably don’t need to actually read this year’s edition to know that the state of postsecondary education in Canada is a bit perilous. And the reason for this, quite simply, is that public

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September 3, 2025 2 Comments

Five Rules for 2025-26

Morning all.  It’s been a busy summer at HESA Towers. We’ve been developing Boardwise, our new suite of governance products with our partners at Balsam Advisory, and exploring new ideas on data governance and analytics with our friends at Plaid Analytics. We’ve also been touring the country with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Thought Leadership Office and the Business +  Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) to talk about higher education, economic growth and productivity. The “what we heard” document from

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September 2, 2025 2 Comments

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