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The Fifteen: Friday, April 25, 2025

Welcome back to the fifteenth edition of The Fifteen (fifteen squared?). The ongoing story in the world of higher education is Trump’s persistent attacks on the sector; the new element is the extent to which other countries are trying to take advantage of the situation to lure American academics abroad. We also note some big policy moves in Algeria and Ethiopia, more unrest in Serbia, a scandal in India, some shock good news on higher education funding in Austria, and

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April 25, 2025 No Comments

Overskilled and Underused? What PIAAC Reveals About the Canadian Workforce

Before our show starts today, I just wanna take a minute to note the passing of Professor Claire Callender, OBE. For the last two and a half decades, she’s been one of the most important figures in UK higher education studies, in particular with respect to student loans and student finance. Holder of a joint professorship at UCL Institute of Education and Birkbeck University of London, she was also instrumental in setting up the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education,

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April 24, 2025 No Comments

Innovation Without Borders: Galileo’s Networked Approach to Better Higher Education System

One of the biggest, but least remarked upon trends in European higher education in recent years is the growth of private for-profit, higher education. Even in countries where tuition is free, there are hundreds of thousands of students who now prefer to take courses at private for-profit institutions. To me, the question is, why? What sort of institutions are these anyway? Interestingly, the answer to that second question is one which might confuse my mostly North American audience. Turns out

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April 17, 2025 1 Comment

To Poach or Not to Poach

Hi all. Welcome back to nine whole uninterrupted weeks of the blog. Let’s get to it. A couple of weeks ago, I mused about the possibility of individual universities using philanthropic dollars to start poaching some talented researchers wanting out from the United States. Now comes news that the University Health Network—the super-hospital network that in research functions as a massive force multiplier to the University of Toronto’s medical school—is trying to hire 100 top early career researchers from around the

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April 14, 2025 3 Comments

The Fifteen, April 4, 2025

The latest edition of The Fifteen highlights stories on workforce readiness and labour productivity (Hong Kong, the UK) and the expansion and regulation of private higher education (Spain, Tunisia).  But we’re also covering such issues as access problems in Finland, faculty issues in Iran and admissions reform in Vietnam, as well as, inevitably, the latest policy atrocities in the United States. Enjoy! That’s our quick global roundup in higher education—from privatization, access and employment outcomes to ambitious reforms and the

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April 4, 2025 No Comments

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