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Coronavirus (3)

I wrote my first coronavirus post a week ago and it was about travel policies and next year’s international student intake.  We’ve come a long way in a week.  As I said on Thursday, this is probably an all-virus blog for the next bit because it’s not clear there is anything else worth writing about (though: if y’all would prefer this blog to focus on the usual miscellany because 24/7 COVID is too depressing, let me know.  I can adapt.) On Thursday, Laurentian

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March 16, 2020 1 Comment

Coronavirus (2)

Things are happening so quickly that I am starting to think I need to temporarily turn this blog into a full-on everyday Coronavirus feed.  A lot has happened since Monday. Overseas: In Austria, the government has told all universities to halt lectures and move online as much as possible.  It is unclear from the stories I have read whether there this is an open-ended or time-limited decision.  Greece closed all of its universities on Tuesday for a period of two weeks. 

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March 12, 2020 No Comments

Encore une fois

You may remember that late in 2018 the Ontario government decided to put the kibosh on funding l’Université de l’Ontario français (l’UOF).  Then last fall, the federal government – showing a key eye for supporting minority language rights in Ontario if not consistency in funding minority language rights across the country – popped up and offered to pay for half of the running costs over the next eight years.  Up front.  As in, all the running costs for the first 4-5 years,

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March 10, 2020 No Comments

Better University-Business Partnerships

I have a new client and – accidentally, I guess – a new line of business.  It’s explaining to businesses how post-secondary institutions actually work and how to navigate their internal processes to arrive at better partnerships.  If you work at a university, that probably sounds strange to you, but trust me, it’s not half as strange as you all appear to the outside world.  Put yourself in the shoes of a large-ish (but not huge) Canadian company, which is

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February 27, 2020 4 Comments

The Mediocrity of Canadian Quality Assurance

We have two more provinces looking at Performance-Based Funding (PBF): Manitoba and New Brunswick.  The former isn’t a huge surprise – it was something recommended by the Manitoba College Review (conducted in part by yours truly) and it was clear that if PBF was enacted, it would need to include colleges as well.  We can only hope that they follow the part of the recommendation which limited the performance funding to graduation outcomes, and not try to jam in every

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February 26, 2020 5 Comments

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