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Category: Canada

Follow up on Quebec

If you just gauge public sentiment by twitter, it would seem the that CAQ’s policies on international and out-of-province students announced last Friday have a lot of support.  Certainly, someone was quick to put together a few infographics – highly inaccurate ones, to be sure – for use as memes.  But usually the arguments were phrased in terms of whatabbouteries: how expensive programs in Ontario were (usually based on cherry-picking the costs at, say, U of T Law and pretending

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October 19, 2023 7 Comments

Canada’s Internationalization Strategy

A couple of months ago, I was invited to participate in a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) stakeholder roundtable on its Strategic Plan for the next five years.  It was very kind of them to invite me and a few others to be part of the consultation.  It was an interesting window into how the federal government thinks about policy and – especially – strategy. It seems to me that GAC is in the education business for three reasons. But instead

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October 11, 2023 2 Comments

Long-Term OECD Data on Institutional Financing

Just for fun, I went prowling through some back issues of OECD’s Education at a Glance (as one does), to look up how public financing of tertiary education has changed over time.  OECD specifically says you shouldn’t do this, which I see as an admission that they view the data submitted by national governments as either not particularly reliable or at least compiled by different people using different definitions/standards on an annual basis.   Having looked over the data, I can

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October 10, 2023 No Comments

State of Postsecondary Education in Canada 2023

Rejoice, all!  For today is the publication for The State of Postsecondary in Education, 2023, your annual statistical guide to all things in our sector.  This year’s edition does not contain any new chapters or appendices, but we have expanded coverage of certain matters related to the student body, particularly with respect to gender and to international students.   With hundreds of pages and graphs, I know you’re going to be up all night reading it.  Try not to strain yourselves. 

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September 6, 2023 4 Comments

HESA Roundtable: Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

Good afternoon everyone. Apologies for the intrusion, but I just wanted to give an update on a project we started a couple of weeks ago. You might remember me promoting a roundtable discussion on Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Models (AI/LLMs) in higher education a few weeks back. It was pretty successful: 177 people from all across the country joined in to discuss their thoughts on how AI/LLMs might change the post-secondary landscape and – more practically – what a pan-Canadian inter-institutional

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June 22, 2023 No Comments

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