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New Digital Universities

Last week Tony Bates, arguably the doyen of Canadian digital education, posted an intriguing little article called Why Canada Needs Five New Digital Universities on his blog at the Contact North website. Basically, Bates’ argument is that the future of learning is hybridized learning – that is a mix of face-to-face and online learning – though we don’t yet know exactly how best to mix those two to achieve best results for different learners at different levels in different subjects.  Not only

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November 19, 2018 1 Comment

A Short History of Federal PSE Transfers

A couple of weeks ago, I noted that the Parliamentary Budget Office was suggesting that the time may soon be upon us where the federal government is asked to take up a bigger share of funding provincial programs such as education.  In the interests of thinking about where the sector may be headed, it’s worth a quick trip down memory lane to see where we’ve been, and why federal transfers ceased to be a major funding avenue for institutions. Transfers for PSE

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November 6, 2018 3 Comments

History of Canadian PSE Part IV (to 1974)

Morning all.  Since people seem to like these history pieces so much, I’ve decided to get us mostly caught up to the present day in one go.  Hope you enjoy! The period roughly from 1959 to the oil crisis of 1973-74 is rightly thought of as a Golden Age for higher education in Canada, much as it is in the United States.  Universities ballooned in size and gradually became more research-intensive.  A new class of institutions, community colleges, were added

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October 10, 2018 1 Comment

History of Canadian PSE Part III (to 1959)

During the war years, post-secondary education was essentially on hold.  But immediately afterwards, in the period from 1945-1960, there were some major developments.  The first was dealing with a major surge in enrolments due to returning veterans.  In 1944-45, full-time enrolment was 38,516, slightly below where it was in 1938.   Two years later, swollen by several cohorts of military veterans taking advantage of a post-war benefits program, it was 76,237.  By 1950 those numbers were starting to fall again –

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October 5, 2018 No Comments

History of Canadian PSE Part I (to 1900)

I decided over the summer to try to write an outline sketch of Canadian Higher Education for y’all.  Expect installments periodically. SNAPSHOT: In 1900, Canadian universities together enrolled 6,641 students.  89% were male, 11% female.  44% of students were in the Arts and Science, while 27% were in medicine, and 11% were in Engineering. *** The key to understanding Canada’s somewhat chaotic higher education system lies in understanding two key phenomena: sectarianism and federalism.  The former issue historically dominated Canadian higher education and gave

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September 7, 2018 1 Comment

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