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Category: Internationalization

Global McGill

Welcome back, everyone.  Let’s jump in. You will recall that last fall the Legault government, reeling from a by-election loss to a suddenly resurgent Parti Québécois, decided to parade its nationalist bona fides by giving an unprovoked kicking to some major anglophone institutions: to wit, McGill, Concordia and Bishop’s.  This kicking – which was imposed on all universities but clearly had a disproportionate impact on the three anglo schools – consisted of two separate policies. Imposing a minimum $17,000/year tuition

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January 8, 2024 3 Comments

Crowding Out

In previous blogs, I discussed how Canadian colleges and universities are generating bad vibes by exacerbating various housing crises.  This has been bad for pretty much the entire sector.  These strategies have contributed to the impression that the leaders of our post-secondary sector are putting their own institutional interests ahead of the communities they inhabit.  It’s not a good look, but for the moment, I think it is survivable from a credibility/responsible neighbour point of view, if only because federal

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November 8, 2023 2 Comments

Canada’s First National Minister of Higher Education

Last Friday’s, Marc Miller, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Canadian Citizenship (IRCC), announced three changes to the International Student Visa program (link here).  You may have seen a small news alert about it (see here or here).  But it seems that almost nobody caught the full import of the announcement.  The announcement started out ok, with Miller again swatting down rumours of a cap on international student visas and comparing the idea to “performing surgery with a hammer”.  Miller

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October 31, 2023 2 Comments

Canada’s Internationalization Strategy

A couple of months ago, I was invited to participate in a Global Affairs Canada (GAC) stakeholder roundtable on its Strategic Plan for the next five years.  It was very kind of them to invite me and a few others to be part of the consultation.  It was an interesting window into how the federal government thinks about policy and – especially – strategy. It seems to me that GAC is in the education business for three reasons. But instead

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October 11, 2023 2 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada, Part 2

Yesterday, we looked at what and where international students studied in Canada. Today, I want to zero in a bit on where international students are from. Let’s start with the issue of country of origin.  Care is required because the data gets a bit tricky: there are something like 135,000 students in Canada who are of dual origin. They are Canadian students, but they also have citizenship in another country.  In this post I will focus on the nation or

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September 27, 2023 2 Comments

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