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Category: Canada

COVID, PISA and So On

A few weeks ago, I was at a session which brought together several folks in the enrollment management business.  It was kind of an open-mike session, in which people could bring up topics that seemed most troubling and most in need of addressing.  So, the topic turned immediately to the preparedness (or more accurately the lack thereof) of incoming students.  Pretty much without exception, from the most to least selective institutions in the room, there was consensus that this was

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December 11, 2023 3 Comments

Women in Engineering

Back around 1990, women signing up to be Engineers was a political statement.  Because of Polytechnique.  Because of the Fourteen.  It felt like a surge at the time, but maybe it was just Engineering-inclined students doing what they would have done anyway, only putting a political sheen on the choice.  Regardless, if you’d told anyone in the early 90s if enrolments in Engineering faculties would still be run running 4- or 5-to-1 male to female thirty years in the future,

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December 6, 2023 No Comments

Canada’s First National Minister of Higher Education

Last Friday’s, Marc Miller, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Canadian Citizenship (IRCC), announced three changes to the International Student Visa program (link here).  You may have seen a small news alert about it (see here or here).  But it seems that almost nobody caught the full import of the announcement.  The announcement started out ok, with Miller again swatting down rumours of a cap on international student visas and comparing the idea to “performing surgery with a hammer”.  Miller

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October 31, 2023 2 Comments

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
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