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The Future of Internationalization

Last week, I was part of a very interesting webinar put on by ICEF involving myself, Allan Goodman of the Institute of International Education (IIE), and the ex-head of Universities UK, Vivienne Stern. The webinar covered the future of higher education internationalization.  I am not quite sure when it will be posted, but prepping for it made me think about a few of the big new directions in which internationalization is heading. I spoke to three specific trends that may dominate

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December 7, 2020 No Comments

Performance and Accountability in a Pandemic

It is a disappointing time for those of us who value accountability.  Governments across the country (outside the Atlantic, anyway) are failing us – badly – in their pandemic responses.  And yet, apparently there are no political consequences for their shameful performance and the accompanying body count.  The Ford and Legault governments, with close to 10,000 deaths between them, are rising high in the polls.  Because everyone (again, if you ignore the Atlantic provinces) is making similar pig-headed mistakes, everyone

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November 9, 2020 No Comments

Needed Research on Remote Teaching

We’re only a few weeks into the term, but there are two important phenomena going on that, in a sensible world, would be the subject of urgent inquiry by all Canadian institutions. (This is not, of course, a sensible world, but I’ll get back to that at the end of the blog). The first topic is: why exactly have so many international students enrolled for remote teaching this term?  We don’t have full numbers yet, and probably won’t for awhile, but

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October 1, 2020 2 Comments

The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Among the many articles related to education which have appeared over the past few weeks are three which I think deserve highlighting:  Mike Moffat & John McNally’s very good Making a Green Recovery Inclusive for All Canadians, Irvin Studin’s unfathomably terrible Canada Needs a Temporary Minister of Education and the needs-some-work “Leveraging the value of Canadian universities is key to our economic rebuild” by John Stackhouse and Andrew Schrumm. Let’s start with the Moffatt/McNally piece, which in truth is only tangentially related to post-secondary education.

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September 15, 2020 No Comments

Student Unions as Early Warning Systems

One of the things that marks out Canadian student unions from their counterparts in (say) the UK is the relative lack of emphasis unions put on advocacy relating to academic quality.  For any student unions that want to change that, the next couple of weeks would be an unprecedented opportunity to do so. The remote semester has created a fundamental pickle for institutions, one which is baked very deeply into the fabric of Canadian academia.  Namely, while universities have the responsibility of attracting

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September 1, 2020 No Comments

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