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Interprovincial Student Mobility

I haven’t looked at the state of interprovincial student mobility in Canada in awhile (last time was back here in 2021) and today seems like as good a time as any to catch up on the latest data. Ready? Let’s go! First, a quick methodological note here: this data does not include colleges (very, very few college students choose to study out-of-province, on the order of about 2%) and at the university level includes students at all degree levels but

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October 20, 2026 1 Comment

The AI Challenge is Coming into Focus

Morning all. I have some thoughts today on how AI is likely to affect teaching and assessment in higher education. A few weeks ago, I was at an event hosted by RBC, which was kind of a fireside chat with Anthropic’s Head of North American Government Affairs, Brian Peters. This was shortly after Anthropic released this think piece on AI and economic growth that asked people to contemplate the prospect of 15% annual GDP growth thanks to the miracle of

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October 19, 2026 2 Comments

British Columbia in a Nutshell (2026)

Morning all. A few years ago, I did a series of pieces on provincial higher education systems (for example, back here). I thought I would return to these five or so years later to see what has changed.  I’ll be running these periodically over the next eight months or so, but I thought I would start today with BC – where there is a provincial election in a few days’ time – and head east from there. So, British Columbia.

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October 14, 2026 2 Comments

The Contemptible OSAP Cover-Up

If you have been paying only casual attention to the Ontario Student Assistance file over the past few months and seen headlines like this one from July, where the province suspended several private colleges from the program, and this one from last week, where the province sicced the Ontario Provincial Police on unnamed private colleges and suspended all private institutions from receiving OSAP funding, you might be under the impression that the Ontario government is very serious about protecting the

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October 13, 2026 No Comments

Why Ottawa Can’t Do the Knowledge Economy

I have read two very interesting things in the past couple of weeks. One is Justin Ling’s excellent piece in the Toronto Star about the inner workings of the Carney PMO and what the government thinks it’s accomplishing (tl;dr: as efficient and business-like as the new PMO is, it isn’t actually trying to fix what’s broken in Ottawa because it often doesn’t know what the actual problem is). And the second is Jeffrey Ding’s excellent new book Technology and the

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October 7, 2026 No Comments
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