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Skilled for the Future: How China is Transforming Vocational Education with Gerard Postiglione

If there’s one thing we know for sure about Confucian societies, it’s the value they place on scholarship.  Being a student doesn’t just connote future financial success; the very act of studying itself carries an important element of moral virtue.  It’s one of the things that has driven university participation rates to extraordinarily high levels in East Asia, and also among diaspora populations in countries around the world.  Here in Canada, 25 years ago, Statistics Canada polled parents across Canada

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December 5, 2024 1 Comment

From 36,000 to 12,000: Tracking the Decline in EU Students Post-Brexit with Paul Wakeling

Eight and a half years ago, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.  Among many, many other consequences, that meant the UK voted to change the status of tens of thousands of European students from “domestic” to “international” students, with all the financial disadvantages that entailed. You see, within the European Union all students, regardless of where they are from are considered “domestic”, and must be treated no differently that students from the country.  In

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November 28, 2024 No Comments

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 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

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