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Category: Politics

The Political Argument for Higher Education

Let me start with three comments/conversations I’ve seen and had in the past little while. Those are all interesting observations on their own but let’s think about the implications of the three comments together.  In other words, institutions have two choices.  First, they can wait for brief moments when the political system allows politicians to ignore the short-term interests of donors and hit them hard.  Or, second, they can exert themselves to try to make institutions like universities and colleges

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May 10, 2023 3 Comments

Higher Education in Ireland

Alex Usher (AU): Hi Everyone.  I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. Today we are talking all things Irish higher education, and joining us as our expert guide to the terrain is Ellen Hazelkorn, principal at BH Associates, a Higher Education consultancy in Ireland, a Professor Emerita at the Technological University of Dublin and one of the sharpest all-around minds in European higher education. Ireland, like many small countries, has to punch way above its weight to get

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April 20, 2023 No Comments

PEI Election Manifesto Review

Today is election day in Prince Edward Island, and so that also makes it HESA Towers Manifesto Review Day.  Buckle up!  One of the things that makes PEI adorable is how tiny all its politics are.  Like, in other provinces, manifestoes might make a general nod towards K-12 capital spending, but on the Island, parties will make specific promises about renovations to specific junior high schools.   But then again, perhaps not surprising when the province is only barely larger than the combined staff/student population of the University

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April 3, 2023 No Comments

Budget Commentary 2023

Hello all. As usual, HESA Towers has been hard at work to bring you our budget commentary, which is available here. While there is the odd good news story in here – like more money for applied research in colleges – in the main, this is probably the worst budget for the higher education sector in years.  An $800 million year-on-year reduction in money for student grants – long foreshadowed, not by any means a breach of promise (the injection

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March 28, 2023 2 Comments

Corruption in South African Higher Education

This week’s World of Higher Education podcast episode takes us to South Africa.  My guest today is Dr. Jonathan Jansen, a distinguished professor of education at Stellenbosch University, just outside Cape Town, and president of the Academy of Science in South Africa.  And we’re talking about his absolutely harrowing new book, Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities. You may have heard tales over the past decade or so about various state agencies in South Africa having

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March 9, 2023 No Comments
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