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
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
[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
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
On Monday, the Royal Bank put out an interesting…well, what was it? Research Paper? Discussion Paper? Idea-concept thingy?…called Humans Wanted: How Canadian Youth Can Thrive in the Age of Disruption. It’s a bit of a mixed bag as a paper, but ultimately it’s not a bad start to the RBC’s “FutureLaunch” project on youth and skills. The core of the paper is an examination of jobs and skills in the new economy, their vulnerability to automation and their growth potential using
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