Category: Institutions

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (September 6, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  Sandrine Desforges here. I am a Research Associate at HESA and have been leading the work on our AI Observatory since its inception. I’ve had the pleasure of popping into your inbox every Friday or so during the past academic year to share ‘AI in Higher Ed’-related news, as well as hosting our monthly AI Roundtables (if you’re new here, you can catch all the recordings online). After a productive summer break (we have some exciting

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The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2024

Morning all. It’s the Wednesday after Labour Day and that means, as usual, that it’s release day for The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, by Janet Balfour and yours truly (with a big assist from Jiwoo Jeon). You can download it in all its glory here. In many recent years, I have used this document to talk about international students and the increasing role they play in Canadian post-secondary finance, but I figure you guys have probably heard that

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A Research Agenda for Canadian Higher Education, Part 2

Just a note that I am at the CAUBO Conference in Montreal today…if you are attending, do drop by my session today after lunch and say “hi.” Yesterday I sketched out a possible research agenda for Canadian higher education. Today, I am going to sketch out how we can best achieve this. What needs to be done at the National level The most important thing we could do is replace the Youth In Transition Survey. This was a longitudinal survey which followed

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (June 2nd, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  This coming week, HESA will be at the QS EduData Summit “AI and Digitally Empowered Education”, in Washington DC. If you are attending the event, come say hi! Next Roundtable Meeting Date: Thursday, June 20th, 2024Time: 12h00-1h30PM ET Online Book Club: “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” by Ethan Mollick Although we officially completed our Winter 2024 series of AI Roundtables last week, we are coming back to you with a special summer event!  Inspired by

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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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