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Global Higher Education to 2050

Thinking about the future of higher education is my bread and butter.  For the last few months, I have been thinking about the extreme long-term and wondering what it all portends for the shape and function of institutions globally.  I’ll share a little bit of what I have been thinking today. If we take a long view – say back to the 1960s, we see a continual increase in the enrolment of students in higher education (which, for the higher

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October 3, 2022 1 Comment

Know Your Incoming Students (2022 edition)

Every three years the Canadian University Survey Consortium publishes a report on first-year students in Canada, and since their new report dropped a few weeks ago (available here), I thought it would be a good time to see what’s changed over the last few years. Quick recap on the CUSC survey: though the questions are mostly the same from year to year (or at least the ones I tend to examine are), the consortium membership changes from year-to-year, so comparisons

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September 7, 2022 No Comments

The Alberta Exodus

A few months ago I wrote a piece on inter-provincial mobility in Canada in which I a) noted that in absolute terms, Alberta was the country’s largest net-exporter of students and b) this was a big change from 15 years ago when it was one of the larger net-importers.  When I pointed this out, I had a number of people on Twitter make assumptions about the deterioration of prospects for young Albertans, particularly after the collapse of the oil industry/arrival

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May 25, 2022 3 Comments

Anticipating Market Demand

A few days ago, someone asked me how institutions, in practice, are supposed to go about trying to anticipate market demand when coming up with new courses.  Since this is something we at HESA Towers does for a number of clients, I thought the answer to this question would make for a pretty good blog.  So here we go: The first thing one needs to be clear about is what market you want to satisfy.  On the one hand, everyone

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March 28, 2022 2 Comments

International Student Externalities

You may have seen the news from California regarding a lawsuit by a well-to-do Berkeley resident against the University of California which has forced the latter to reduce its 2022 enrolment by 2,600 students.  Basically, the plaintiff – a well-to-do local who spends half his time in Nelson, New Zealand – said that too many students were destroying the neighbourhood and sued the university over its enrolment plans, using the California Environmental Quality Act.   A lower court agreed with the

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March 21, 2022 2 Comments

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