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Category: Institutions

Aurora College

The Government of the Northwest Territories published a Foundational Review of Aurora College, which is causing something of a stir north of 60.  Recent times have not been good for the college.  In early 2017, there was pressure from the Government to cut Social Work and Teacher Education programs (a decision later rescinded); soon afterwards the Government eliminated the college’s entire Board of Directors and replaced it with a single administrator before the review (one suspects there are a lot of stories here, but NWT

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June 12, 2018 1 Comment

Chinese Higher Education in Four Graphs

Every once in awhile you have to just sit and marvel at what the Chinese government has managed to pull off in higher education.  Since the turn of the millennium, enrolments have increased five-fold.  That’s staggering enough, but check out figure 1 below. Figure 1: Change in Enrolment and Size of 18-21 Cohort, 2000-2017 (2000 = 100) That five-fold jump in enrolment?  It occurred at the same time as a 21% drop in the size of the 18-21 cohort (in

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June 8, 2018 No Comments

More York

[the_ad id=”12709″] Judging by most of my mail bag, yesterday’s piece on the York strike was a hit.  So, I thought I would throw in two tidbits which I didn’t really get to yesterday, as well as give my suggestion for a way out of the strike. Tidbit 1:  For those of you who don’t know the geography of York: it’s massive.  The main Keele campus is over 450 acres.  But, in a terrible for management/great for labour act of

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June 7, 2018 1 Comment

The York Strike

Back on March 5, CUPE local 3903, which represents graduate students, contract faculty and graduate assistants at York University, went on strike. A university offer was resoundingly rejected by the union membership in early April.  The union has consistently rejected arbitration. The Liberals dithered about back-to-work legislation until so late in the legislative session that it could easily be blocked by the NDP (which it was, as could easily have been foreseen given the NDP pledge never to use back-to-work legislation). 

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June 6, 2018 2 Comments

Better Know a Higher Ed System: Japan (3)

Japan is one of the world’s most hierarchical societies.  You could have a pretty good argument about whether or not this is an artefact of the Tokugawa bakufu of the 17th century or if it goes back to the Kamakura regime of the 12th – 14th centuries, but either way, it’s been that way a long-time.  It’s in the language, the culture, the politics – pretty much everywhere.  And so, too, in the higher education system. This hierarchy manifests itself in a few ways,

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May 24, 2018 No Comments

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