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Category: Funding and Finances

Welcome Back. Let’s Go!

Hi everyone. I missed you guys! Welcome to Season 14 of Canada’s longest-running data-informed higher education rant. Time flies, doesn’t it? Last year’s experiment of replacing one blog a week with a podcast seems to have gone pretty well so we’ll be continuing that. Our Friday blogs on Artificial Intelligence will be shifting to bi-weekly so we can deliver more detailed analysis and coverage on that subject. On alternate Fridays, we will be providing you with a new feature, The

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September 3, 2024 5 Comments

No One is Coming to Save Us

Good morning, all. This is the final blog for the year apart from tomorrow’s podcast. I am probably going to do one or two blogs if and when big news comes up during the summer (and we at HESA will have some big event-related news fairly shortly, so stay tuned). As usual, all feedback and suggestions for the blog are welcome—just drop me a note at president at higher ed strategy dot com. Regular daily service will return on Tuesday

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June 12, 2024 No Comments

Budgets, Trust, and POVs

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for me. It’s end of term/conference season, and so I get a lot of requests to go around the country speaking to Boards, Senates, leadership groups, etc. And the most interesting parts of these discussions are the Q&As, particularly when the same theme crops up multiple times. And the bits that keep coming up are around budgeting. There’s an obvious reason why everyone is worried about budgeting. It’s because the sector is screwed.

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May 29, 2024 2 Comments

Aggravatingly Clueless

Much of the current discourse about international students sounds something like this: “We love international students, it’s just that we want them to get a more Canadian-oriented education. They shouldn’t be in global business programs, they should be in trades programs, they should be in health programs. You know, things that contribute to Canadian society. If only we enrolled international students in these programs, we could let in more and more of them”. This is, simply, a combination of wishful

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May 28, 2024 3 Comments

A China Update

If you’ve been reading this bog for a while, you’ll know that I occasionally keep tabs on what’s going on at some of China’s top universities. I haven’t done it in a couple of years or so, so I thought it was time for an update. Figure 1 shows total expenditures at what I call China’s Big 8 universities (which is actually just the C9 League of universities—that is, the Chinese equivalent of Canada’s U15, only even more elite—minus the

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May 28, 2024 No Comments

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