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Category: Internationalization

The Reckoning

I am calling it now: Canadian post-secondary institutions are very close to the end of the road on international student number growth.  It’s not because demand is going to dry up or anything like that.  There is still room for hundreds of thousands more international students if we wanted them, and probably demand to match as well.  It is simply that too many institutions have become too greedy, and they are imposing intolerable externalities on their surrounding communities.  A backlash

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May 9, 2022 1 Comment

StatsCan Enrolment Day 2021

Last Wednesday was StatsCan Enrolment Day, 2021.  Now, this does not of course mean that we now have data on enrolments for 2021.  That won’t happen for another couple of years.  No, what it means is that we have data for 2019-20, so we are only about 25 months behind reality instead of the 37 months behind that we were last Tuesday. (StatsCan is capable of faster work.  Heck, it can get university tuition fee increases more or less right

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November 29, 2021 1 Comment

Core Funding Versus The Hustle

If you’re a long-time reader, you’ll know I often produce diagrams of funding trends for Canadian universities that look like this: Figure 1: Total University Revenue by Source in Billions of $2019, Canada, 1979-80 to 2019-20 But I am starting to think this method of portraying the data does not actually explain what is going on in universities these days.  Instead, I think there are really only two categories of funding that matter: those that involve getting paid for traditional

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October 26, 2021 3 Comments

Global Higher Education’s Post-COVID Future (2) – Funding Challenges Forever

Yesterday, I described some of the big changes of the past 18 months; today I will talk a little bit about the first of the three big trends that we need to watch for over the next few years.  This one I call “Funding Challenges Forever”. Around the world, COVID has had two distinct financial impacts on institutions.  In countries where the vast majority of funding came from governments (mainly, but not exclusively, Europe), the COVID shut-down had very little

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September 28, 2021 1 Comment

What Could Still Derail Fall 2021

Some of you doubted me – a few of you quite vocally –  when I suggested campuses would be able to open in-person for Fall 2021.  Now, it should be clear that with more vaccines being approved, accelerated deliveries of already-approved vaccines and the decision to permit up to four months between jabs, that pretty much anyone in the country who wants one will receive the first dose of the vaccine by June and most will have a second before

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March 9, 2021 1 Comment

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