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Category: Internationalization

The Bailiffs Are at the Door

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

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June 5, 2023 5 Comments

Ontario Colleges. Again.

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

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May 15, 2023 2 Comments

The Brampton Charter

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

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February 22, 2023 No Comments

Sayonara 2022

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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December 8, 2022 3 Comments

One Podcast to Start Your Day: Internationalization

Good morning.  Today we have another episode of One Podcast to Start Your Day.  This time we invited Nancy Johnston (Independent consultant and former Vice President Students and International at Simon Fraser University), Andrew Ness (Dean, International at Humber College), and Michael Savage (Manager of International Markets and Mobility at Higher Education Strategy Associates) to talk about internationalization: from recruitment patterns, diversification, the international student experience, and how institutional, provincial, and federal policies affects all of the latter.  The full

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November 10, 2022 No Comments
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