Hi all.
It’s time for me to step back from the blogging for a few weeks. As of Monday, we’ll be switching to a “One Thought to Start Your Week” until the middle of August; that will let me catch up a bit on things and get prepped for the fall.
I want to say thanks to all of you for reading and commenting. I learn a lot from your feedback and I’m very grateful for all of it, even when you’re (sometime correctly) chewing me out. The thousands-strong readership is a really interesting cross-section of academia, and includes hundreds of people from outside Canada as well (what, I always wonder, do they make of it? Are they here for the solid policy analysis or just the Glen Murray jokes? Mysteries abound.)
But I would like, if I may, to make one tiny request before leaving you alone (mostly) for the summer: if it’s not too much trouble, could you take a minute to tell me what you like and don’t like? What should I be writing about more? What should I be writing about less? I kind of get the impression that most of you enjoy it when I stick it to the “MOOC fetishists” and do my myth-busting thing about labour-market outcomes – but what else do you like? I’d really love to know.
In any event – have a great summer and get some rest. I have a feeling next year’s going to be a big one.
Ciao,
Alex
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Alex – you asked for some ideas about what you should be writing about:
– how about a spotlight on undergraduate – stand alone bachelor’s degrees – offered outside the university sector?
There are 165 of them now.
– how about a focus on credit transfer or lack there of in this country ?- credit recognition and transferability are a critical barrier to labour mobility and contribute to the skills shortage
– how about analysing data from OCAS or other provinces not just BC?
– and there has been scant interest in your blog on professional education – the kind that comes from graduate and post graduate certificates at colleges and polytechnics.
– finally, how are provinces dealing with out of province but Canadian students? is there a built in obstacle through the provincial student loan system to cross Canada mobility?
Have a good rest.
Nobina