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Erasmus for Canada? Not so Fast.

Everyone seems very excited about the prospect of Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union (even though “associate member” is not an actual thing in any EU statute, but whatever), and in particular are talking about the value of greater student mobility since apparently Prime Minister Carney would like Canada to join the EU’s Erasmus scheme. In the words of the world’s greatest living cartoonist, Aislin…”everybody take a valium”. Sure, everybody loves Erasmus in theory. Who could be

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September 21, 2026 2 Comments

The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood

We tend to think of universities as places full of physical things: laboratories, libraries, property, above all, buildings. They’re more than that, of course. They’re communities of scholars with missions and values. Some people think they should be less, that education would be better off in the cloud, online, and liberated from mere place. But for most of their history, universities have been undeniably place-based, material to the max. Today, my guest is William Whyte. He’s a professor of social

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September 17, 2026 No Comments

The Fifteen: September 11, 2026

Hi everyone. The Fifteen is back, bringing you news on the biggest developments in higher education around the world from the last two weeks. Let’s get right to it! And that’s it for now. See you back here in two weeks.

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September 11, 2026 No Comments

The Postliberal University

Hi, everyone. I’m Alex Usher, and this is the opening episode of season five of the World of Higher Education podcast. American higher education is going through some unprecedented times. Republican governments in the States and in Washington now treat universities and colleges not as partners, but as an enemy to be conquered. University presidents are as likely to be pilloried by politicians as they are to be treated as important civic leaders. And legislators seem to feel empowered to

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September 10, 2026 No Comments

The Fifteen: June 12, 2026

Morning, all. The higher education news never stops. In addition to the usual stories of American universities being subjected to increasingly absurd right-wing assaults, there’s some interesting stuff happening in places that don’t often make the Fifteen, including the Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iceland, and Panama. Let’s go check it out. That’s it for now folks, see you back here in September. 

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June 12, 2026 No Comments
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