Category: Government

Consulting

The issue of how governments use consultants is now centre-stage, thanks to Pierre Poilievre and the National Post deciding to go full Maude Barlow on the issue of federal government contracts with McKinsey & Company.  Chatter on twitter suggests that left and right are able to come together around two key issues: first, that having consultants do work means that government is somehow no longer accountable to the public  and second, plaintively asking “why do we need consultants, when public servants

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Mexican Higher Education and the Lopez Obrador Presidency

Welcome to the first podcast episode of 2023. As you read in Monday’s blog, the format of the podcast will be changing over the next few weeks. We are excited to bring you more stories of higher education from around the globe, including the countries highlighted the World Higher Education Review. While the formatting and branding will be changing, the quality insight our guests bring will not. This week we’re joined by Alma Maldonado-Maldonado of Mexico’s CINEVSTAV as we discuss

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One Podcast to Start Your Day-United Kingdom

On this episode of One Podcast to Start Your Day, we’re hopping overseas to chat with our friends from Wonkhe for a year-in-review on higher education in the United Kingdom. David Kernohan (Acting Editor), Jim Dickinson (Associate Editor), and Sunday Blake (Associate Editor) join us to talk about some of the UK’s most pressing issues in higher education. The full podcast can be found with a full transcript here, along with the past episodes of OPTSYD.  Thanks to our producers Tiffany MacLennan

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One Podcast to Start Your Day-Newfoundland and Labrador

Good morning.  In exciting news, One Podcast to Start Your Day can now be found on all of your favourite podcast apps and includes a RSS feed. This episode, and the two previous ones, can be found here: https://anchor.fm/optsyd. Today we have different version of One Podcast to Start Your Day.  We invited Dale Kirby to our virtual table for a one-on-one discussion of post-secondary education in Newfoundland and Labrador. Dale’s background as a Professor in the Faculty of Education

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Data Priorities

You all know I complain a lot about data in Canada.  So today, I thought I’d assemble a wish list: a set of priorities for developing a better system of higher education data, along with some thoughts about how these measures could be implemented as part of a larger, overall accountability agenda Now, I am going to focus on the need for new data but there is a lot that could be done to make better use of existing data. 

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