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Lula’s Return and the Future of Brazilian Higher Education

It’s been quite a big few weeks for elections around the world. The US midterms on Tuesday, of course, as well as the election in Israel last week, and in Serbia, where a student movement-backed and coordinated movement actually ousted the Serbian Radical Party from power. Another big election played out in Brazil, where President Lula da Silva staged an unlikely comeback on October 25th after losing the first round of voting three weeks earlier, and students in particular played

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November 5, 2026 No Comments

Alberta in a Nutshell (2026)

Morning all. A couple of weeks ago, I told you I’d be spending a good number of blogs this year looking at provincial higher education systems and how they are doing. I’m going west-to-east and today it’s Alberta’s turn.  As figure 1 shows, overall enrollment in Alberta post-secondary institutions is up by just over 80% since the turn of the century. The graph makes it appears as though most of the growth has been in universities, and that’s true in

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November 2, 2026 No Comments

Interprovincial Student Mobility

I haven’t looked at the state of interprovincial student mobility in Canada in awhile (last time was back here in 2021) and today seems like as good a time as any to catch up on the latest data. Ready? Let’s go! First, a quick methodological note here: this data does not include colleges (very, very few college students choose to study out-of-province, on the order of about 2%) and at the university level includes students at all degree levels but

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October 20, 2026 1 Comment

Erasmus for Canada? Not so Fast.

Everyone seems very excited about the prospect of Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union (even though “associate member” is not an actual thing in any EU statute, but whatever), and in particular are talking about the value of greater student mobility since apparently Prime Minister Carney would like Canada to join the EU’s Erasmus scheme. In the words of the world’s greatest living cartoonist, Aislin…”everybody take a valium”. Sure, everybody loves Erasmus in theory. Who could be

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September 21, 2026 2 Comments

How IDP Sees the Next Era of International Education

Student mobility is big business. Behind the process of getting students to apply to and then attend a university or college thousands of miles away from home is an industry that’s worth billions of dollars a year. And one of the OGs of that industry is a company called IDP, which grew out of an Australian government scheme beginning in 1969, and which for the first 37 years of its existence was owned by a consortium of Australian universities. Over

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May 14, 2026 No Comments
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