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Newfoundland and Labrador’s Big Reset

Two Thursdays, two big reports out of St. John’s.  The first was a 355-page doorstopper on the post-secondary system; the second is the Report of the Premier’s Economy Team, snappily-titled The Big Reset, which broadly covers the province’s entire economy and government in a mere 342 pages.  I’m guessing this second report will have a bigger impact on the province’s post-secondary system, so it’s worth looking at what it says.  But first, a quick backgrounder on the province as a whole. Newfoundland

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May 10, 2021 1 Comment

How to Write a Campus History

Among the many, many things I never thought I would do before getting into this line of work is reading a whole ton of campus histories.  Seriously, I will read almost anything like this.  It’s about the first thing I do when I get to a campus: head to the bookstore and try to find an institutional history.   And having thus become something of a connoisseur, I can give you an overview about the state of the art. Basically, there is a

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May 6, 2021 2 Comments

All Hands on Deck

Alberta wasn’t the only province to release a report on post-secondary education last Thursday.  Out in St. John’s, the three commissioners of the Independent Review of the Post-Secondary Education System in Newfoundland and Labrador finally, after much delay, published its report, pithily entitled All Hands on Deck.   Just to give you a rundown on the province before we get into the report: Newfoundland and Labrador has two multi-campus institutions, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN for short) and the College of the

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May 4, 2021 No Comments

Micro-credentials in Ontario

The word “micro-credential”, precisely because remains relatively undefined, is absolute catnip to politicians.  It’s tabula rasa: you can tell politicians the word means damn near anything and not only will they believe you, but no one can contradict you because no one can contradict you.  Here is a list of things at least one provincial education minister/ministry appears to believe about micro-credentials. In other words, nearly everything about micro-credentials is down to design details rather than being automatic properties.  But this

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April 28, 2021 1 Comment

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine

I have been getting emails soliciting my option about the Government of Ontario’s decision to make the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) a stand-alone university.  This is a big issue in Northern Ontario, with many people getting upset over what I think amounts to very little.  But perhaps we should rewind to the beginning. NOSM is a fairly unique medical school.  It was created in the mid-2000s to deal with a persistent shortage of doctors in Northern Ontario.  In

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April 27, 2021 2 Comments

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