The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

The World of Higher Education Podcast Listen now →

Category: Funding and Finances

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (1)

Back in July, I was kindly invited to a conference sponsored by the Perspektywy Foundation in Warsaw to give a talk about the future of global higher education after COVID.  Over this week, I want to recap that talk and provide some analysis about the main policy trends affecting higher education of the next few years.  Not all these trends will affect countries equally (for reasons that will become apparent) but I think they probably capture the biggest pieces of

Read More »
September 27, 2021 1 Comment

Education at a Glance 2021

On Thursday, the OECD released its annual Education at a Glance report.  I always do a blog post about these, even though, let’s face it, very little changes annually.  But I have zero desire to talk about this godforsaken election anymore, so this seems like a welcome opportunity to change the subject a bit. Let’s start with Figure 1, tertiary attainment rates, where Canada always performs well.  This shows Canada as having one of the highest tertiary attainment rates in

Read More »
September 20, 2021 No Comments

Student Debt Update 2021

Back in early July, the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium (CUSC) released its triennial survey of graduating students.  As always, one of the most interesting things in there is the data on student debt, because it is one of the few good, up-to-date national snapshots that we have of the issue.  There are some limitations to the snapshot.  It doesn’t report out on a provincial basis, only a national one.  It doesn’t really include Quebec.  The sample in the survey is

Read More »
September 15, 2021 No Comments

A Notable Set of Higher Education Reforms

Let’s say you live in one of those former socialist countries with a really old-fashioned higher education system.  Your universities are insular because they have almost no contact with the private sector.  Internally, they are managed by an academic oligarchy.  Externally, they report directly to a government– no Board of Governors, just a straight reporting relationship between the rector and a government minister.  And I don’t just mean an accountability relationship here – I mean the rector and every single

Read More »
June 2, 2021 1 Comment

Support > Illumination

Some things never change.  Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada.  Take, for instance, the “Education for All Campaign” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), the campaign produced this new report, which is not a new report in

Read More »
May 26, 2021 5 Comments

One Thought to Start Your Day

One Thought to Start Your Day is our founder and CEO Alex Usher’s popular daily blog, brimming with up-to-the-minute insights and informed opinions on today’s higher education industry.

Subscribe

Search Posts

Search Publications

Social Media

Linkedin Youtube Spotify

Recent Posts

More thoughts on...