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Category: Colleges and Polytechnics

Aggravatingly Clueless

Much of the current discourse about international students sounds something like this: “We love international students, it’s just that we want them to get a more Canadian-oriented education. They shouldn’t be in global business programs, they should be in trades programs, they should be in health programs. You know, things that contribute to Canadian society. If only we enrolled international students in these programs, we could let in more and more of them”. This is, simply, a combination of wishful

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May 28, 2024 3 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 24th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Today’s newsletter includes various articles about the impacts of AI on research and science.  Also, here’s your last chance to register to our AI Roundtable on decolonization, which will take place next Tuesday. See details below. Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h00PM ET Join us next Tuesday, May 28th, from 12:00PM to 1:00PM ET, for our next AI Roundtable, which will focus on Decolonization. In this session, we will have the pleasure to

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May 24, 2024 No Comments

The College Program Apocalypse

A lot of people have been speculating about what’s going to happen in the Ontario College sector now that its use of the money-printing machine of ever-increasing international student numbers has been shut off. Some have speculated about Laurentian-style bankruptcies. I think that’s extraordinarily unlikely given the way this is playing out. I do think some significant changes—sometimes quite deleterious ones—are going to occur in Ontario post-secondary. It’s just that it’s going to happen at the level of individual programs,

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May 21, 2024 4 Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 19th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  The highlight of today’s newsletter – we share a research paper that proposes an Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale to integrate GenAI in educational assessment. You’ll also learn about the new version of ChatGPT – GPT-4o. Read below! Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h00PM ET Join us Tuesday, May 28th, from 12:00PM to 1:00PM ET, for our next AI Roundtable, which will focus on Decolonization. In this session, we will have the pleasure to

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May 19, 2024 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (May 12th, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In today’s newsletter, you’ll find articles about US community colleges’ responses to AI, recommendations on where educators should focus their attention with respect to this technology, and reflections on the future of higher ed and critical thinking.  If you’ve missed our latest One Thought to Start Your Day blog on AI, you can read it here.  Finally, don’t miss out on the last AI Roundtable of our 2024 Winter series, focusing on Decolonization. See below for

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May 12, 2024 No Comments

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