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Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960 with Dr. Miles Taylor

There’s something distinctive about universities that were founded in the 1960s. Maybe it’s the brutalist architecture. Maybe it’s the wild, naive but hopeful sounding principles on which they were formed, but they seem very different. And even though decades later, their distinctiveness may have been worn down by the winds of isomorphism, there’s still something that  lingers and distinguishes them from both their older and younger neighbors. The phenomenon is perhaps most pronounced in England, where these universities were at

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October 31, 2024 No Comments

The Fifteen: October 25, 2024

Welcome back to the fourth edition of The Fifteen As usual, we’re taking a trip around the world of higher education to check in on the trends and stories that are shaping the sector. We’re heavy on US stories this week, but still some interesting tidbits from places as far afield as Chile, China, Spain and Norway. Enjoy!

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October 25, 2024 No Comments

HESA’s AI Observatory: What’s new in higher education (October 18, 2024)

Spotlight Good afternoon all,  In the next couple of weeks, we’ll be working on refreshing our online repositoryof policies and guidelines from Canadian and global post-secondary institutions. If your institutions’ resources are not yet on our website, or if the ones that are there are no longer the most updated versions, please send the links our way so that we can continue building this helpful collection of resources!  In the meantime, let me highlight a few of the most relevant

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October 18, 2024 No Comments

Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaboration, and Knowledge Production with David Baker

Science makes the world go around.  Even if the political world we inhabit is increasingly vibes-based rather than evidence-based, the physical world around us is becoming more driven by technology and science every day. Nowadays, science and universities are seen almost as two sides of the same coin. But it wasn’t always that way and there have been alternatives. Go back 250 years and it wasn’t at all clear that science and universities were meant for each other for laboratories were often

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October 17, 2024 No Comments

The Fifteen: October 11, 2024

Welcome back to another edition of The Fifteen, with a new list of ongoing and developing stories from around the world of higher education. The ongoing internationalization controversy, increasingly commercial education offerings and a tightening funding environment are not unique to Canada, and by tracking global trends in higher ed we’re hoping to deliver a global perspective on the sector. This edition picks up the trail in Canada as usual, looks at the response to continuing demographic shifts in China

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October 11, 2024 No Comments

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