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The Fifteen: February 21, 2025

Good morning and welcome to the 11th edition of The Fifteen. This week we try to avoid the chaos in the United States to visit spots to look at a wide range of stories from Tashkent to Tokyo, Singapore to South Africa, Cairo to Canberra and a whole bunch of points in between. It’s nearly time! The next edition of The Fifteen will be released during AI-CADEMY: Canada Summit for Post-Secondary Education, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop showcasing

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February 21, 2025 No Comments

Students on the Frontlines: The Ongoing Protests in Serbia with Jim Dickinson

If I say the word “Serbia”, chances are your mind goes to things like the NATO air attacks of 1999 and the associated Kosovo War, to the breakup of Yugoslavia and to Marshal Tito and maybe – if you’re more historically-minded – to the origins of World War I.  It probably doesn’t go to higher education or radical student politics. But that’s kind of unfortunate because in fact Serbia’s recent history has had plenty of instances where youth- or student-based

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February 20, 2025 No Comments

Data, Decisions, and Disruptions: Inside the World of University Rankings

University rankings are pretty much everywhere. Though the earliest university rankings in the U. S. date back to the early 1900s and the modern ones from the 1983 debut of the U. S. News and World Report rankings. The kind of rankings we tend to talk about now, international or global rankings, really only date back to 2003 with the creation of the Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities. Over the decade that followed that first publication, a triumvirate emerged

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February 13, 2025 No Comments

That NIH Thing You’re Hearing About

If you’re in the higher education field, you have probably heard a lot in the last four days about the Trump regime reducing funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—roughly the equivalent of our Canadian Institutes of Health Research, only with a budget four times larger even after adjusting for population size. Specifically, the Trump administration is limiting the amount of overhead costs that institutions can recover from government. Cue much shouting in the US about adverse impacts, destruction

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February 11, 2025 No Comments

The Fifteen: February 7, 2025

Today is the tenth edition of The Fifteen. Higher Education is in flux around the world, and we are taking a look at reforms in the EU, India and Indonesia, with stops in Australia and Hong Kong. We’re also looking at some contrasting approaches to managing AI, keeping track of the ongoing political confrontation between students and the government in Serbia, as well as—inevitably—keeping tabs on whatever it is Trump is doing to American Higher Ed. HESA’s AI-CADEMY: Canada Summit

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February 7, 2025 No Comments

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