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Unrest and Reform: Bangladesh’s Youth Movement and Higher Education with Sharowat Shamin

In our terminally postmodern world, it’s easy to discount student political movements. It has after all been decades since they were a major political factor in most Western countries. To the extent that we’ve seen them provoke major disruptions in recent decades, it’s tended to be in the service of rather narrow and self interested issues like tuition fees, as in South Africa in 2015 and 2016 and Quebec in 2011 and 2012. And yet we do know that in

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November 21, 2024 1 Comment

The Lost Potential of Institutional Research: Insights from ‘Outsourcing Student Success’

Inside every higher education institution lies a secret cabal of people — gurus really — who know everything about the institution and how it works. They’re called institutional researchers. And yet, despite all this specialized knowledge, the field (it’s not really a profession) is not usually at the heart of university decision making. Why is that exactly?  Today, my guest is Joseph Wycoff. He’s the author of ‘Outsourcing Student Success, the History of Institutional Research, and the Future of Higher

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November 14, 2024 No Comments

The Fifteen: November 8, 2024

While the news for the past two weeks has basically been all US elections, there are still many stories from around the world of higher education worth paying attention to. This week on The Fifteen, we’re winging our way from Toronto to China to India, with stops in Canberra, London, and Jakarta along the way. Enjoy! Early-bird tickets for HESA’s AI-CADEMY: Canada Summit for Post-Secondary Education, are being extended. Check out our speakers and consider joining us for important conversations

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November 8, 2024 No Comments

The University Advisory Group: Reimagining New Zealand’s Higher Ed Future with Chris Whelan

We live in a time when governments seem to have few ideas about how to manage massified higher education systems. One playbook in this situation, often used in the UK and Australia, is to punt the question to a group of experts in hope that they might find some policies to make higher education more useful, productive, and, let’s face it, cheaper. Today we’re going to take you to Wellington, New Zealand, where the new government, led by the National

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November 7, 2024 No Comments

Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960 with Dr. Miles Taylor

There’s something distinctive about universities that were founded in the 1960s. Maybe it’s the brutalist architecture. Maybe it’s the wild, naive but hopeful sounding principles on which they were formed, but they seem very different. And even though decades later, their distinctiveness may have been worn down by the winds of isomorphism, there’s still something that  lingers and distinguishes them from both their older and younger neighbors. The phenomenon is perhaps most pronounced in England, where these universities were at

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October 31, 2024 No Comments

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