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One of the great promises of higher education is that it acts as a social ladder—one that allows students from low-income backgrounds to climb up and reach a higher social and economic status. No one, I think, ever believed it was a guaranteed social leveler, or that children from wealthier families didn’t have an easier time succeeding after college because of their own, and their family’s, social and cultural capital. But most people, in America at least, believed that on
Cast your minds back to January of 2024, when the federal government suddenly decided that housing was an issue, international students were the problem and implemented a complicated and irritating-to-implement set of caps that were 35% lower nationally than for 2023 (and in Ontario significantly more than that). Then, in 2025 came another set of changes including a 10% cut in the national limit. And then, on top of that, a set of new conditions on post-graduate work visas were
One of the most tiresome debates in post-secondary education is about whether or not students emerge from their studies “job ready”. To which the answer, of course, is that for the most part they do not. Education – including vocational education – is meant to prepare you for a long career rather than an immediate job. Training for specific jobs? That’s usually a job for companies themselves, and the fact that they underinvest in this area – notably by cutting
I have been noodling for a while on the question of how the use of Artificial Intelligence is likely to change the cost structure of institutions, so I thought it was worth a blog. Particularly since most of the theories I hear about in this area are almost certainly wrong. The one thing I think we can confidently rule out about AI and teaching is that AI will “replace professors” (or in more extreme versions, “replace universities”). This is a
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