Over the past few weeks, a weird idea has been emanating from Ottawa: a hard cap on student visa numbers. This is a pretty foolish idea, as even a cursory examination of the issue will show. It’s not entirely impossible – there is a narrow way to make it work – but I absolutely do not trust the present federal government to pull it off. First, let’s start with why people think a cap on student visas is necessary. As
Just a short one today, because I am spending my Sunday on a flight to Almaty and have less time than usual to blog. Last month, I wrote “The Bill is Coming Due”. It largely revolved around the theme that Canadian PSE institutions were too dependent on international students and that relatively minor failures in recruitment were now causing institutions real harm. Also last month, I wrote about Ontario colleges and how they were killing the Golden Goose of international
Hi all. Just a short note before getting into this blog post that we at HESA Towers are trying something a bit new. On Thursday, we are hosting an online meeting for everyone across the country who is interested in institutional policies on teaching and learning with respect to AI programs based on Large Language Models. Want to know how many institutions are seeing the issue mainly as a plagiarism problem and how many are seeing it as an opportunity
I sometimes get accused of being more pre-occupied with the faults in higher education than the successes. And that’s natural, I suppose: while HESA (it’s not just me folks, there’s fifteen of us here) tends to position itself as a “critical friend” to higher education, writing a blog about the subject sometimes ends up looking like a journalistic approach to the subject, i.e. going from one disaster to another. So instead, let me tell you about an interesting experiment happening
Morning all. This is the final blog of 2022: service resumes January 9th. When I do a send-off blog, it’s worth thinking about the year past and asking: what should we remember about this year and what do we expect from the year ahead? To my mind, there are really two big stories from 2022. The first has to do with Laurentian University, which was still the scene of considerable intrigue as evidence gradually mounted that its then-President, Robert Haché,
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