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Cape Breton, You Have to be Kidding Me

Faithful readers may remember my blog last year about Cape Breton University and how it doubled its international enrolment in one year, making an absolutely ludicrous amount of money in the process.  As a result of this phenomenal little piece of entrepreneurialism, Cape Breton has suddenly become hip in higher education circles, because the whole idea of anyone flooding into Sydney, Nova Scotia, let alone young people from halfway around the globe, is pretty astonishing to Sydneysiders as much as anyone else.  Whatever they’re

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October 17, 2019 2 Comments

The State of Canadian Post-Secondary Education, 2018

Good morning.  Today sees the publication of The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2018, our first annual review of Canadian post-secondary education institutions, students, faculty, and finances.  You can download the whole thing here, you can wait for me to dribble the whole thing out in blog-sized chunks over the next couple of months only with added sarcasm, or both! But today what I want to underline is what is effectively the lead story from the report, which has

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August 28, 2018 3 Comments

Risk (Income)

Over the course of the last three days we’ve been talking about all kinds of risks: today, I want to talk about financial risks and particularly how institutions generate income. Greater institutional income is a panacea for problems facing institutional boards: the more income you have, the better position one is in to deal with all those risks we’ve been talking about all week .  A rich institution can pay to attract good staff (both academics and key non-academic positions, like

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April 19, 2018 No Comments

“Xenophobia”

Here’s a new one: the Canadian Federation of Students has decided, apparently, that charging international students higher tuition fees is “xenophobic”.  No, really, they have.  This is possibly the dumbest idea in Canadian higher education since the one about OSAP “profiting” from students.   But as we’ve seen all too often in the past year or two, stupidity is no barrier to popularity where political ideas are concerned.  So: let’s get down to debunking this. The point that CFS – and

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February 6, 2017 1 Comment

More on International Fees in Canadian Universities

Due to a few unexpected issues yesterday, we had to postpone the One Thought. With no further ado, here it is: The day before yesterday we looked at what universities in different parts of the country are charging in terms of international tuition fees.  Here’s a quick graph to refresh your memory: Figure 1: International Undergraduate Tuition Fees, by Province, Canada, 2016-17 Figure 2 shows the same data but with a different Y axis.  Instead of showing the figure in dollars, let’s

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December 14, 2016 2 Comments

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