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Higher Education, 90210

Just a quick reminder before we move into the one thought of the day: we’ve officially launched HESA’s Transnational Education (TNE) Strategy Project and are now looking to finalize our founding cohort of member institutions. If your institution is exploring (or re-examining) transnational education as part of its future strategy, we’re inviting expressions of interest by February 23. You can learn more about the project here. One of the great guilty pleasures of Wednesday nights in North America in the

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February 18, 2026 No Comments

Wells, Rowat, Hurtubise

Wells, Rowat, Hurtubise A couple of weeks ago, Paul Wells wrote his first column for University Affairs. It was on the very specific and sore point on campuses these days: namely, what seems to be the Growing Estrangement Between Universities and Society. The point he makes, which I think is mostly correct, is that while at the start of the century Canadians (not just governments but citizens) really did seem to believe that the world ran through universities, that really hasn’t

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October 2, 2024 3 Comments

A Sub-par Study on Returns to Education

Last Week, Royal Bank produced a study with the brash headline “Financial Returns After a Post-Secondary Education Have Diminished.” Within the limited terms of the limited methodology of the first half of the mini-paper, the headline is not entirely incorrect. But man, this is a disappointing piece of analysis from an organization with pretensions to thought leadership. So, what does this paper say? Basically, part 1 of the paper takes four data points for university (NOT all of post-secondary—strike one

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September 17, 2024 1 Comment

That Fifth Estate Episode

Many of you will have seen the Fifth Estate episode that aired two weeks ago, about international students in Canadian institutions and how many of them think – sometimes not without reason – they have been sold a bill of goods with respect to the quality of the education they receive.  If you haven’t already watched it, it’s here and you may want to give it a gander before continuing with this blog. Finished?  Good.  Then I’ll begin. Broadly speaking,

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October 26, 2022 4 Comments

Globe Data Wrongness

On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robyn Doolittle.  On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy.  But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data analysis.  Consider the blog my way of correcting the record. Wang and Doolittle’s data

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June 7, 2021 1 Comment

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