Publication Years: 2021
Every year on the day of the Federal Budget, the HESA staff bring you insights into how the budget will impact areas that matter to higher education the most: research funding, student aid, innovation and R&D, targeted funding, and other areas. Our reports cut through the funding announcements and discuss what the real changes are and what you need to know about them.
HESA’s Monitoring Trends in Academic Programs (MTAP) is a regularly published discussion of new and exciting programs, courses, and approaches. Each issue explores a thematic area that covers several disciplines. MTAP is designed to be read by people both within and outside the discipline areas, providing examples of how universities and colleges around the world are creating and revising programs that tackle major social issues, engage students in new ways, and combine discipline approaches in compelling ways.
This report focuses on Canada’s regional colleges, as in the relatively smaller community college-type institutions located across Canada outside of the largest urban centres. Notwithstanding their strength, we would argue that regional colleges in Canada can pursue transformational activities to achieve markedly better results on behalf of students and employers. Our proposals imply considerable short-term challenges and often high costs, but, we believe, great returns down the road.
HESA supported the development of a strategic plan to guide the future of research, teaching, and learning at Queen’s Engineering. The project required deep and sustained engagement with alumni, faculty, students, and staff.
