I spent a wonderful couple of days in London last week at the Festival of Higher Education, put on by the excellent folks at WonkHE (go sign up for all their stuff right now, because they are great). It was a wonderful convening of a type that simply doesn’t happen in Canada: 600 university folks in one spot, just nerding out on a whole bunch of issues bedeviling the sector. And not just the usual suspects at the top of
Spotlight Good morning all, You might remember the $2.4B announcement made by the federal government last April for the implementation of a series of measures meant to Strengthen Canada’s AI Advantage. (If you don’t, or if you’d like a refresher, you can read about it in our Budget 2024 Commentary). Within those $2.4B, $50M were earmarked for the creation of a Safety Institute. While this announcement was generally well received by our Canadian AI godfathers, little information was available at that
Inside every higher education institution lies a secret cabal of people — gurus really — who know everything about the institution and how it works. They’re called institutional researchers. And yet, despite all this specialized knowledge, the field (it’s not really a profession) is not usually at the heart of university decision making. Why is that exactly? Today, my guest is Joseph Wycoff. He’s the author of ‘Outsourcing Student Success, the History of Institutional Research, and the Future of Higher
While the news for the past two weeks has basically been all US elections, there are still many stories from around the world of higher education worth paying attention to. This week on The Fifteen, we’re winging our way from Toronto to China to India, with stops in Canberra, London, and Jakarta along the way. Enjoy! Early-bird tickets for HESA’s AI-CADEMY: Canada Summit for Post-Secondary Education, are being extended. Check out our speakers and consider joining us for important conversations
We live in a time when governments seem to have few ideas about how to manage massified higher education systems. One playbook in this situation, often used in the UK and Australia, is to punt the question to a group of experts in hope that they might find some policies to make higher education more useful, productive, and, let’s face it, cheaper. Today we’re going to take you to Wellington, New Zealand, where the new government, led by the National
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