Category: Colleges and Polytechnics

Education at a Glance 2023

The OECD’s annual Education at a Glance (EAG) report came out last week.  It’s a One Thought tradition to go through this report in detail for the latest international comparisons on institutional income and participation rates, but I’m going to mostly forego that this year.  That’s partially because I have a doozy of a piece coming out on finance in a week or two, but also because this year’s EAG contains some interesting special topics worth looking at, particularly with

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 15th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, In the planning of our series of AI Roundtable meetings, we at HESA towers are currently hoping to host a session on student perspectives during the month of November. We’d appreciate your help in connecting us with student leaders from your institutions that would be open to share their views on how AI is impacting higher education. We’re looking for diverse perspectives, including voices from graduate students. Let us know if you think of anyone by

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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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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 8th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, I hope that the first week back on campus was a good one.  Earlier in August, we, at HESA towers, sent a survey to provosts and VPAs to get a better sense of where institutions were at with respect to building policies and guidelines regarding AI. (We’re still collecting answers, so if you had forgotten about it and it’s been lying around in your email box, you can still get to it.) From the early answers

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 1st, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks so much to the 185 of you who joined us last Monday for our AI Roundtable meeting on Governance and policy. We’re encouraged by the continued strong interest on this issue and we’re pleased to continue hosting these sessions and populating our Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education. It was striking in Monday’s session to hear the inter-institutional disparities with respect to the pace of policymaking. Some institutions are already working on developing

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