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Nova Scotia Manifesto Analysis 2024

I thought I was done with election pieces for a while, but apparently Tim Houston wanted to get in an election this year (I guess it’s easier to run as a provincial Conservative while an obviously flailing Liberal administration is still in power in Ottawa), and so here we are with an election tomorrow and me with one more of these blogs to write. Fortunately for me, but unfortunately for the sector, the parties have conspired to keep this one

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November 25, 2024 1 Comment

A New Alberta Postsecondary Review

The week before last, the Alberta Minister of Advanced Education, Rajan Sawhney announced a funding review for Alberta post-secondary education. I saw a fair bit of snarky comment about this on social media which I thought was kind of unfair. (Note to followers: now that Bluesky actually has passed the minimum viable size to be a useful social media platform, you’ll mostly find me there rather than Twitter. My address is: @alexusherhesa.bsky.social). So, let’s break it down a bit. The

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November 18, 2024 1 Comment

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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November 16, 2024 No Comments

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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November 5, 2024 2 Comments

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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October 28, 2024 No Comments

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