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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 6 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

University Governance in Canada: Navigating Complexity

As the title of this podcast implies, this show is meant to cover as broad a swathe of higher education across the Globe. To make room for all that, we mostly stay away from Canadian topics (you get enough of that on the blog anyway). But today we’re going to change things up a bit in order to talk about one of my favorite books of 2022. Last fall, a quartet of Canadian higher education scholars – Julia Eastman, Olivier

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June 1, 2023 2 Comments

Progress Studies and Data Collection in Higher Education

One of the things that absolutely cheeses me off about the field of higher education as a field is how little attention is paid to what might be called “progress studies”.  What are “progress studies” you ask?  Well, let me turn things over to Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowan, who coined the phrase in an Atlantic article a few years ago. “Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that

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May 30, 2023 2 Comments
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