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Higher Education, 90210

Just a quick reminder before we move into the one thought of the day: we’ve officially launched HESA’s Transnational Education (TNE) Strategy Project and are now looking to finalize our founding cohort of member institutions. If your institution is exploring (or re-examining) transnational education as part of its future strategy, we’re inviting expressions of interest by February 23. You can learn more about the project here. One of the great guilty pleasures of Wednesday nights in North America in the

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February 18, 2026 No Comments

How Big Consulting thinks about Higher Education

A couple of weeks ago, David Kernohan at WonkHE, wrote a wonderfully cutting little piece about a new Ernst & Young report calling for a “fundamental re-think” of higher education, and how it seemed to rely on millenarian scenarios in order to sell what was actually a fairly modest call for institutions to maybe improve their IT capabilities.  It inspired me to think a bit more about how the rest of the big consulting groups – Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst &

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February 7, 2022 5 Comments

From the Shelves of HESA Towers – The Cathedral of Learning

Some of the more interesting piece on our shelves are not actually books at all, but pamphlets, short guides, conference proceedings, and other paraphernalia.  One day, I will show y’all the programme from that 2006 conference on student aid sponsored by the Thai government, where we got to see the Thai civil servants in their quasi-military uniforms (this is a thing, believe it or not), and where the Deputy Minister of Finance mounted the stage beneath two crossed shooting jets

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April 9, 2020 No Comments

Better Know A Higher Education System: Westeros

Although the politics of Westeros are widely discussed in North America (well, in HESA Towers, anyway, where we’re all getting ready for an office finale viewing on Sunday), relatively little attention has been paid to the role of higher education in the Seven Kingdoms.  Or rather, the ramifications of its lack thereof. Magic and dragons aside, Westeros seems like your basic high medieval economy/society – 13th or 14th century, by the look of it.   Europe at this point in its

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May 17, 2019 1 Comment

Building a Nation of Innovators

OK, so I was going to share with you some interesting research from Europe and elsewhere on Individual Learning Accounts, which everyone in Ottawa seems to think are going to be A Big Deal in the upcoming budget. However, that will have to wait because yesterday the Innovation Minister, Navdeep Bains, speaking yesterday to what was no doubt a packed room at the CD Howe Institute in the middle of a full-on Toronto white-out, released a fantastic new piece of

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February 13, 2019 1 Comment

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