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By Their Actions Shall Ye Know Them

There are two ways of thinking about student unions. You can think of them as being (a) populated by idealists, who only want education for all, or you can think of them as (b) actual unions, prioritizing wins (financial and otherwise) for their members – who, let’s recall, tend to come from wealthier backgrounds than society as a whole – ahead of any other cause. With that in mind, let’s look at the some recent public statements from the Canadian

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September 22, 2011 2 Comments

What the U.K. Tuition Fight Tells Us About Universities

The U.K. is a great country when it comes to higher education innovation – good or bad, they’re not afraid to take new policy ideas to their logical conclusion. Their most recent move – allowing tuition fees to rise up to £9000 – is a case in point, and it is already providing some valuable lessons with respect to the essential dilemmas of higher education policy. The government clearly thought that this kind of “big bang” deregulation of tuition would

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September 16, 2011 No Comments

The Newfoundland Strategy

There was an interesting study out last month from a group of scholars at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), led by Education Professor and Canadian Higher Education über-blogger Dale Kirby, called Matriculating Eastward . With MUN’s out-of-province student numbers skyrocketing in recent years (intake from the other Atlantic provinces has risen fivefold since 2002), the report used both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the reasons that out-of-province students chose Memorial as their place of study. Not surprisingly, cost emerges as

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September 12, 2011 No Comments

Strategy Matters

Here’s a key truth to understanding the future of academia: the western world hit “Peak Higher Education” sometime in 2009. That is to say, across the OECD, we are unlikely to see public funding at 2009 levels ever again. Between the current global financial crisis and its associated fiscal problems, and the challenges associated with aging societies, there will not be a return to prior levels of public support for higher education for decades to come. Now peak higher education

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September 1, 2011 No Comments

Some Tropes We’d Like to Bury

It’s back-to-school time, which inevitably means we’re about to get a raft of journalists dubbing various things as “trends” (step forward, the Ottawa Citizen). Here are three that we should just ditch right now: (1) Rising Costs Mean More Students are Working. Wrong, at least if we’re talking about the last ten years. In the mid-80s, the student in-school employment rate jumped from about 30% to 40%, where it stayed through to the end of the 1990s, when it jumped

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August 23, 2011 No Comments

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