Category: Policy

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (November 16, 2024)

Spotlight Good morning all,  You might remember the $2.4B announcement made by the federal government last April for the implementation of a series of measures meant to Strengthen Canada’s AI Advantage. (If you don’t, or if you’d like a refresher, you can read about it in our Budget 2024 Commentary). Within those $2.4B, $50M were earmarked for the creation of a Safety Institute. While this announcement was generally well received by our Canadian AI godfathers, little information was available at that

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The Road Ahead for International Students

You could be forgiven if, after the last few months, you thought that Canadian post-secondary institutions should be turning their attention away from international students. But nothing could be further from the truth. The underlying dynamics of international student recruitment have not changed—institutions still need money and provincial governments are basically united in their determination to prevent them from getting it from domestic sources—only the tactics going forward have. Let’s start on the college side. Their business has mostly been

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Saskatchewan Election Manifesto Analysis, 2024

Hi all. Third of three manifesto analyses for this ballot-iest of Octobers, this time Saskatchewan which goes to the polls today. This one might be the simplest one yet, mainly because Saskatchewan elections—like those in the other two Prairie provinces—are a resolutely two-party affair. It has been 25 years since a third-party MLA has been elected to the legislature, and there is zero danger of that streak being broken tonight. But also because the differences in the two parties’ platforms

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HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 18, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be working on refreshing our online repositoryof policies and guidelines from Canadian and global post-secondary institutions. If your institutions’ resources are not yet on our website, or if the ones that are there are no longer the most updated versions, please send the links our way so that we can continue building this helpful collection of resources!  In the meantime, let me highlight a few of the most relevant

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Carnage

Y’all may recall January 22nd, when federal Immigration Marc Miller slapped a national cap on international student visas which implied a 35% cut (but larger in Ontario) and effectively killed off the PPP industry for (mainly Ontario) community colleges. You may also recall September 16th, when Miller returned to say “surprise! Now the cap includes graduate students” and also made changes to the post-graduate work-visa program which are likely to obliterate colleges’ ability to recruit students (the guesses I am hearing from the

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