Category: Universities

The Other Side of the Coin

I’ve spent a lot of time recently talking about Ontario colleges, about how they have responded to persistent underfunding by via the international student business (either on their own or via public-private partnerships).  But I have not spent so much time discussing the province’s other sector, the one which faced similar losses in government-controlled revenue but did not did not pursue international quit so arduously.  So today, let’s talk about Ontario universities. We can start by looking at financial data

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 8th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, I hope that the first week back on campus was a good one.  Earlier in August, we, at HESA towers, sent a survey to provosts and VPAs to get a better sense of where institutions were at with respect to building policies and guidelines regarding AI. (We’re still collecting answers, so if you had forgotten about it and it’s been lying around in your email box, you can still get to it.) From the early answers

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Sept. 1st, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon all, Thanks so much to the 185 of you who joined us last Monday for our AI Roundtable meeting on Governance and policy. We’re encouraged by the continued strong interest on this issue and we’re pleased to continue hosting these sessions and populating our Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education. It was striking in Monday’s session to hear the inter-institutional disparities with respect to the pace of policymaking. Some institutions are already working on developing

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Aug. 25th, 2023)

Spotlight Good afternoon, With back to school around the corner (or already behind for some of you), higher education institutions are facing increasing pressure to come up with proper policies or guidance surrounding the use of generative AI. HESA’s Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education is here to help institutions find guidance in the development of their institutional response to this complex issue. We have already begun to receive policies and guidelines from institutions across the country. Thanks

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (Aug. 18th, 2023)

Spotlight Good morning, It’s been very encouraging to see the positive response to the launch of HESA’s Observatory on AI Policies in Canadian Post-Secondary Education over the last week. Thank you to those of you who have already shared with us the policies or guidelines that were developed by your institution. We will be populating the Observatory every week with new policies and guidelines with respect to AI that have been developed by higher education institutions across the country and

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