Category: History Lesson

Tomorrow is the 25the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. I remember the trauma of it.  I also remember the way it mobilized people: Now, surely, things would change.  Now, surely, things would be different. Looking at things today, I’m not sure our 1989 selves would be all that excited about how things have turned out. Enough from me, though.  My voice isn’t one that matters today.  Just spare a few minutes.  Go to a service.  Remember the dead.  We still

Higher education is a tradition-driven industry.  It’s frankly useless to try and deduce very much about national higher education systems based on public/private split, funding systems, methods of student selection, etc.  If you really want to understand what a country’s university system looks like, go find a history of the country’s first institutions.  That’s where you’ll find all the answers. Within each country, the first university (or perhaps two or three) tends to act as a “model”, which the rest