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Rays of Optimism, Paths Forward

Last Thursday and Friday, HESA held our Re: University conference in Ottawa. It achieved what we wanted it to achieve – to get people to have hard, tough conversations about what’s ahead and how to deal with the still-growing threat to Canadian universities. Today, I want to clue everyone in on a couple of highlights and meditate on a way forward. The opening session, with RBC’s John Stackhouse and two former Ontario premiers, Dalton McGuinty and Bob Rae, was in

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February 3, 2026 1 Comment

The Fifteen: January 30, 2026

Hi all. The Fifteen is back with the choicest higher education stories from around the world over the past two weeks.    That’s all for now: see you back here in two weeks.

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January 30, 2026 No Comments

Uzbekistan’s Higher Education Boom

Uzbekistan is not a country that intrudes on western consciousness very much. If people think of Uzbekistan at all, they tend to think of it for its past glories. Perhaps they know a little bit about for the Silk Road cities of Tashkent and Bokhara, or the brilliant city of Samarkand, whose Registan and grand Observatory, built by the Scientist-King Ulugh Beg, briefly made the region the world’s centre of astronomy and mathematics in the early fifteenth-century. But since the silk road

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January 29, 2026 No Comments

Transnational Strategy Now

The world of transnational education – that is, the provision of education in one country by universities based abroad – is getting very interesting these days. In particular, branch campuses have returned to the centre of the industry’s activities in a way they have not been for well over a decade. Canada’s post-secondary system – which has always been a laggard in this area – risks getting left even further behind, unless institutions up their game substantially in the next

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January 28, 2026 No Comments

Authentic Universities: Choosing What Not to Be

University missions are tricky things to enunciate. From the point of view of many faculty, people who have reached their position by dint of their excellence in a specific field, tend not to view their employer’s main mission as one of providing a platform for their discipline. Understandably, this is not how local publics view things – they tend to look for something more externally-focused. Yet when institutions try to enunciate something beyond disciplines, for many it tends to feel odd or inauthentic.

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January 22, 2026 No Comments

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