Category: Canada

Occasionally, I write pieces noting how oddball Canadian higher education is in international context, usually in ways that are poorly understood.  I want to do that again today, specifically with the notion of external quality assurance, a topic so foreign to much of Canadian academia that it sounds entirely made up.  We recognize it for program accreditation in certain (mainly professional) fields, but the idea that institutions are held accountable this way is largely unknown to most Canadian universities. In most of the world,