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A New (ish) Argument About Debt and Tuition

As I am starting to sketch out the bones of my next book, (semi-serious working title: How Tuition Fees Will Save the World), I am collecting arguments about the nature and desirability of private contributions to higher education.  Most of the interesting stuff on that front right now is coming from the United States, which is of course sui generis as higher education systems go and so not necessarily applicable elsewhere, but its nonetheless vital to understand. Maybe the most

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June 11, 2019 No Comments

Danger Ahead

Canadian universities and colleges like to congratulate themselves for their enormous success in increasing international student enrolments over the past few years.  And why not?  That success has brought Canadian institutions billions of dollars and allowed them to make up for roughly a decade of domestic tuition fee controls and stagnant core provincial funding. We have told ourselves a lot of stories over the last few years about why we have been so successful.  Many of them have to do

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June 10, 2019 1 Comment

From the Shelves of HESA Towers (III)

As each year passes, it becomes harder to remember what exactly life was like before the internet.  How did we communicate?  How did we store and retrieve information?  (A colleague recently commented on twitter that watching All the President’s Men today feels like an ad for Google because the first hour or so is just people looking through phone books).  And, if you were in a specific technical field like higher education, how did you keep track of what was going on

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June 7, 2019 No Comments

Comparing Internationalization Policies

Last month the British Council and NAFSA published an interesting pair of studies, which I had the good fortune to be involved with.  Three colleagues – Janet Ilieva, Vangelis Tsigirlis and Pat Killingley – wrote the main report (which, among other things, focussed on differences within Europe) and I contributed a companion report on the Americas.  The main report is interesting in a number of ways, notably its collection and collation of data on national research output (and the share thereof which involves international

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June 5, 2019 No Comments

What Works in Reducing Inequality

A couple of weeks ago, the World Bank published a very interesting little paper which received little attention.  What Works to Reduce Inequalities in Higher Education?  A Systematic Review of the (Quasi-) Experimental Literature of Outreach and Financial Aid, by Koen Geven and Estelle Herbaut, needs to be read by everyone with an interest in expanding access to higher education.  While there have been many papers which have used meta-analysis techniques to look at financial aid programs, this paper extends those

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June 3, 2019 No Comments
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