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A New U

When it comes to education and the labour market, universities (well, the bits outside the professional schools, anyway) like to say they are in the business of preparing students not for their first job but for their fifth, or (more grandiosely), “preparing them for life”.  There are some powerful reasons for and assumptions behind that statement, and on the whole this view has served universities and their graduates well over the past few centuries.  But in a world where experience

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January 11, 2019 No Comments

Higher Ed Books of 2018

You all know the drill.  I read a bunch of higher ed books every year (not all of them published this year) and then just before XMAS I give you my picks.  Serious higher ed nerds seem to enjoy it, but some of you will want to skip this.  Either way, here we go: Fiction – I mostly read campus novels to satisfy my masochistic streak, because as a genre they are pretty awful (Lucky Jim made me want to tear my

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December 13, 2018 1 Comment

The Return of Peter Nicholson

Peter Nicholson occupies a very odd place in Canadian policy circles.  There are not many people as smart as him who are as little known outside Ottawa as they are influential within the capital.  So, when he speaks it is always worth listening because you know the senior folks in Ottawa are doing so. Last week, Nicholson wrote a stem-winder of a piece for IRPP. You should read it in full, but let me give you the Coles notes version: Canada

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October 9, 2018 4 Comments

Go Have Fun

[the_ad id=”12740″] Summertime.  Class is out.  Time for relaxing and writing. I’ll be shutting down the blog for a few weeks.  Back regularly as of August 27th, but may post once or twice over the summer in response to any big news or report releases.  You can probably expect one in the next week or two on the subject of student debt, for instance, as the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium releases its triennial survey of graduating students (which wouldn’t be

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June 22, 2018 1 Comment

Dissecting Student Protest and Politics

Following on the theme of yesterday’s blog on May ’68, I recently read a volume of papers edited by University of Surrey Professor Rachel Brooks called Student Politics and Protest: International perspectives (Research into Higher Education).  As with any volume of essays, the quality of the articles is uneven and it while doesn’t have quite the global reach of the late 60s works of Seymor Martin Lipset and Phillip Altbach (here and here), it still has a reasonably impressive scope and I think there are

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May 2, 2018 No Comments

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