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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

The Fifteen: October 25, 2024

Welcome back to the fourth edition of The Fifteen As usual, we’re taking a trip around the world of higher education to check in on the trends and stories that are shaping the sector. We’re heavy on US stories this week, but still some interesting tidbits from places as far afield as Chile, China, Spain and Norway. Enjoy!

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October 25, 2024 No Comments

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaboration, and Knowledge Production with David Baker

Science makes the world go around.  Even if the political world we inhabit is increasingly vibes-based rather than evidence-based, the physical world around us is becoming more driven by technology and science every day. Nowadays, science and universities are seen almost as two sides of the same coin. But it wasn’t always that way and there have been alternatives. Go back 250 years and it wasn’t at all clear that science and universities were meant for each other for laboratories were often

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October 17, 2024 No Comments

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