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Category: Internationalization

Canada’s International Education Strategy Mark II

Tucked away almost unnoticed on page 67 of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Fiscal Update last week was a fascinating little statement: “To build more skills and provide training that will help support Canada’s international trade and increase global ties, Global Affairs Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada will work together to develop a new international education strategy.” What should we make of this? The initial impression made by this phrasing is not very good.  Sure, it makes sense that within the Government

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November 26, 2018 No Comments

France’s New International Education Strategy

On Monday, Campus France (which is roughly equivalent to Canada’s CBIE, if CBIE were an arms-length government agency) published its new Stratégie d’attractivité pour les étudiants internationaux.  It’s an intriguing document for a couple ofreasons so I thought I would talk a bit about it today. It starts off run-of-the-mill, with some gee-whiz stats about the growth of the international student market.  Then, on page 6, we get to the heart of the matter.  The page is titled “La France, 4ieme pays

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November 23, 2018 1 Comment

Understanding Higher Education in the Gulf

On my way home from India last week, I stopped off in Dubai to take a quick peek at what was going on in the Gulf (which, just to define our terms a bit, consist of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, the last of which is a confederation of seven tiny statelets, including Abu Dhabi and Dubai).  Here’s my quick primer: The Gulf basically has four kinds of universities. First, it has “public” universities.  The

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November 15, 2018 1 Comment

Notes on Canada’s International Advantages (and Disadvantages)

During my brief trip to Asia, I spent a fair bit of time chatting with people who one way or another are in the international education business.  Two somewhat connected thoughts: Canadians Continue to be Not Very Good at the Whole International Campus Thing.   I spent a couple of days in Dubai, where there are now somewhere on the order of 100-odd institutions operating, a substantial portion of which are international.  The only “semi”- Canadian one is an outfit called

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November 14, 2018 1 Comment

Good Lord Cape Breton

Last week, I got an email from the Atlantic Association of Universities.  “Great news!” it said.  “Enrollment in Atlantic Canadian universities rose by 2.4% last year!”  That’s pretty good, I thought to myself,  given the demographic crunch and all.  So, I clicked through on the document to get to where I can see the institution-by-institution data (I always do this, because it’s always good to see how your clients are doing.) Hm…OK, NSCAD up 8.3%, that’s good (guess our work

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October 22, 2018 No Comments
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