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The Bailiffs Are at the Door

Just a short one today, because I am spending my Sunday on a flight to Almaty and have less time than usual to blog. Last month, I wrote “The Bill is Coming Due”.  It largely revolved around the theme that Canadian PSE institutions were too dependent on international students and that relatively minor failures in recruitment were now causing institutions real harm.  Also last month, I wrote about Ontario colleges and how they were killing the Golden Goose of international

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June 5, 2023 5 Comments

Ontario Colleges. Again.

Hi all.  Just a short note before getting into this blog post that we at HESA Towers are trying something a bit new.  On Thursday, we are hosting an online meeting for everyone across the country who is interested in institutional policies on teaching and learning with respect to AI programs based on Large Language Models.  Want to know how many institutions are seeing the issue mainly as a plagiarism problem and how many are seeing it as an opportunity

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May 15, 2023 2 Comments

Two POVs on the Coming Student Grant Changes

The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations has started a new campaign, entitled #halfyourCSG.  It rails against the perceived risk of a 50% drop in the maximum value of the Canada Student Grant (CSG) come this fall.  This might be kind of a sleeper issue for PSE over the next few weeks, so it’s worth taking a look at what the issues are and how everything might play out. To recap the policy evolution here: in 2016 the Liberal government raised

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March 6, 2023 No Comments

The Brampton Charter

I sometimes get accused of being more pre-occupied with the faults in higher education than the successes.  And that’s natural, I suppose: while HESA (it’s not just me folks, there’s fifteen of us here) tends to position itself as a “critical friend” to higher education, writing a blog about the subject sometimes ends up looking like a journalistic approach to the subject, i.e. going from one disaster to another.  So instead, let me tell you about an interesting experiment happening

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February 22, 2023 No Comments

Data Priorities

You all know I complain a lot about data in Canada.  So today, I thought I’d assemble a wish list: a set of priorities for developing a better system of higher education data, along with some thoughts about how these measures could be implemented as part of a larger, overall accountability agenda Now, I am going to focus on the need for new data but there is a lot that could be done to make better use of existing data. 

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November 29, 2022 1 Comment

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