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4 avril 2016

Would leaving the EU really mean fewer EU students coming to study in the UK?

HEPI is a registered charity, regulated by the Charity Commission. It does not take a position on the UK’s continued membership of the European Union. Instead, it exists to promote healthy debate on issues associated with higher education. More...

4 avril 2016

HEPI / Times Higher EU referendum essay-writing competition

We are no joining forces with the Times Higher once more for an essay-writing competition on the UK higher education’s place in the European Union. There will be a £200 prize for the best entry on each side of the argument and a number of the best entries will be published on the THE blog. More...

4 avril 2016

“Slow Professors”

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. I read with interest this piece in University Affairs about “The Slow Professor”, which is the name of a book by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber – English professors from Brock and Queen’s, respectively – who think that professors need to push back against the hecticness of the modern academy.  To wit:

“The authors offer insights on how to manage teaching, research and collegiality in an era when more professors feel ‘beleaguered, managed, frantic, stressed and demoralized’ as they juggle the increasingly complex expectations of students, the administration, colleagues – and themselves. ‘Distractedness and fragmentation characterize contemporary academic life,’ they write. Today’s professors, they argue, need to slow down, devote more time to ‘doing nothing,’ and enjoy more pleasure in their research and teaching. It’s time, they say, ‘to take back the intellectual life of the university.’”

Hmm.  Hmmmmm. More...

4 avril 2016

The Development of Post-Secondary Education Systems in Canada

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. This is the title of a recent-ish book (subtitle: a comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, 1980-2010) edited, and largely written by Don Fisher and Kjell Rubenson of UBC, Teresa Shanahan of York U, and Claude Trottier of Université Laval.  Despite a couple of significant faults, it’s well worth a read. More...

4 avril 2016

Why the US Free Tuition Debate is Different

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. Free tuition is a growing political issue in the United States.  Most of the free tuition plans out there (for instance in Tennessee and Oregon) are effectively variations of what was recently introduced in Ontario – that is, a re-packaging of student aid so that some students pay “net zero” in college – or at least community colleges.  The plan President Obama has presented to Congress over the past twelve months or so seems to be a bit more expansive – that is, actual zero-tuition for two years of community colleges rather than just a re-jigging of aid. More...

4 avril 2016

Who Won and Who Lost in the CSLP Re-Shuffle

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. Last week’s historic changes to the Canada Student Loans Program – which saw the elimination of the Education and Textbook Tax Credits, and an increase of 50% in Canada Student Grants – is a very complicated piece of policy to analyze.  Remember that there is no new money in this set-up: any new money given to one set of students through grants is money taken away from another set of students in tax credits. More...

4 avril 2016

Metaphors and Similes

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. I recently came across this little blogpost from the UK bemoaning the fact that the Vice-Chancellor of Imperial College described professors as “like small business owners”.  The poster then went on to wonder: “if professors are small businesses, what kind of micro-state is the contemporary university?” More...

4 avril 2016

The Continued Cheapening of the Term “Academic Freedom”

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. Is it reasonable to suggest that outsourcing of some IT functions might have privacy implications? Sure.  Might those implications violate the terms of a collective agreement?  Possibly; depends on the wording of the CBA.  But academic freedom?  No, that’s ridiculous. More...

4 avril 2016

HESA’s 2016 Budget Analysis

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. The team at HESA towers was up late last night putting together – as we do every year – a review of the Government of Canada’s Budget 2016, specifically as it relates to higher education and training. You can read our full analysis, here. Below are some of our key takeaways and conclusions from Budget 2016. More...

4 avril 2016

Marketing “Free Tuition”

Résultat de recherche d'images pour By Alex Usher. The Ontario reform, as you will recall, was a shuffling of money rather than an infusion of one (note: some of the shuffling was federal shuffling, not provincial shuffling – that is, the provincial changes are predicated on the feds making changes in today’s budget. More...

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