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A Short Explainer of Public Private Partnerships in Ontario Colleges

I always get questions about international students and visas when I travel across Canada talking to university and college audiences.  And what I find is that in most parts of the country, they are genuinely puzzled about what is happening in Ontario.  Most say they have heard about all these “unscrupulous private colleges” who are “taking advantage of students.” Online, more racist theories suggest this is a story of “human trafficking” in which these “private colleges” are “in on a

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September 11, 2023 98 Comments

The Alberta Problem

Last week, the good folks of Alberta elected a United Conservative Party government for the next four years.  What does that mean for post-secondary education?  First, I think it’s a pretty good bet that – on the university side at least – we will continue to see more episodes of culture war nonsense along the lines of what we saw in Lethbridge last year.  Universities are kind of the epitome of the “effete lefty” culture that UCP likes to believe

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June 6, 2023 4 Comments

What Six Questions Tell Us About the Ontario Government

In the final scenes of the 1991 movie The Russia House, as Sean Connery is about to give “the shopping list” – a comprehensive list of questions about Soviet rocket technology – to what MI6 and the CIA believe is a potential Russian defector, there’s a conversation between a young agent and Edward Fox, who plays Sean Connery’s handler. “Sir, the shopping list.  It’s only questions isn’t it?  It wouldn’t tell anyone anything?” “Everything.  It would tell what we know

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May 24, 2023 2 Comments

Alberta Election Manifestos 2023

Alberta goes to the polls next Monday, so it’s time for another edition of “check out those election promises”.  I’ll restrict my comments to the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the United Conservative Party (UCP) since those are the only parties likely to win seats or crack 3% of the vote (yes, yes, the Alberta Party – colour me unconvinced). You can see the New Democratic Party Platform here.  It’s not quite a platform in the traditional sense of having

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May 23, 2023 1 Comment

Colombian Higher Education

On this week’s episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast, Javier Botero joins us to discuss Colombian higher education. These days he’s a lead consultant at the World Bank, but formerly he was the Vice Minister of Higher Education in Colombia, and he’s here with us today to provide an overview of recent policy developments in the nation. Colombia’s higher education system is complex. In addition to a large number of universities, it also has two other sectors, one

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May 18, 2023 No Comments

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