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Category: Internationalization

The Latest Bandwagon – American Students

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk about US students coming to Canada.  NBC ran a segment on Americans at McGill, and the Globe and Mail ran a piece on the same.  This seems to have led many institutions to start thinking “hot damn, another market! How can we grab us some of these Americans?”   But for most institutions, this would be the wrong reaction.  Before venturing into a market, every school needs to

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June 10, 2013 2 Comments

The Limits to Internationalization

There’s a very important question that institutions across the land will soon need to confront, namely: how many international students can a public institution accept before taxpayers and governments say “no more”? It’s not an idle question.  In Switzerland, serious concerns are being raised about foreign student numbers that are getting close to the 40% mark.  In the US, where big flagship public universities have been adding international students in droves over the past few years, most feel reluctant to

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May 2, 2013 No Comments

The Minerva Project

The Minerva Project, an intriguing concept which bills itself as the world’s “first online Ivy League University”, has been making some news lately.  The idea, in a nutshell, is this: the Minerva will all be taught online, with curricula designed by “the world’s top professors” (yawn), but classes taught by some of America’s many talented, but underemployed (and hence cheap) sessionals.  We aren’t talking MOOCs here – these classes will be limited to 25 students each, so as to maximize

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April 30, 2013 1 Comment

The Monash-Warwick Alliance

About fifteen months ago, I wrote that the next big thing in cross-border higher education was going to be an actual merger of two institutions, in different countries.  Now, we have a real live experiment to watch, thanks to the Monash-Warwick Alliance. This didn’t get a lot of press when it was announced (I certainly missed it), but it’s a reasonably big deal nonetheless.  In a nutshell, these two large, young  universities (Monash dates from 1958, Warwick from 1964), with

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January 28, 2013 2 Comments

What Goes Up May Come Down

About six years ago now, when policymakers in Canada started to get excited about international education, many hoped that foreigners might be able to subsidize our expensive system of higher education.  I don’t mean to put too fine a point on it, but the thinking was: if the Australians could manage it, presumably so could we. To date, our results have been pretty good.  International enrolments keep rising. The money keeps on flowing, offsetting the weakness in government funding.  What

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January 18, 2013 No Comments
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