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2 décembre 2018

28ème concours de l’OVE

Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Depuis 1990, l’Observatoire National de la Vie Étudiante (OVE) organise un concours annuel, destiné à encourager des recherches réalisées par des étudiant.e.s sur les thématiques en lien avec les conditions de vie des étudiant.e.s. Plus...
2 décembre 2018

Measuring Social Mobility in Higher Education

By Alex Usher. It’s not like it’s impossible to do.  In the UK, the University and College Application Service simply analyses the postal codes of applicants and students and use that to track changes over time.  Are student entry rates going up or down for poor students transferring directly from secondary school?  You don’t need to guess. More...

2 décembre 2018

Canada’s International Education Strategy Mark II (bis)

By Alex Usher. A couple of people have pointed out that I may have rushed to some conclusions about the meaning behind the International education strategy.  Isn’t it possible, some asked, that this wasn’t about a new strategy to attract students, but a strategy to send students abroad. More...

2 décembre 2018

Canada’s International Education Strategy Mark II

By Alex Usher. The initial impression made by this phrasing is not very good.  Sure, it makes sense that within the Government of Canada, Global Affairs and ESDC takes the lead on this file.  But the lack of any mention of provinces, faculty, universities, colleges, etc, in the announcement – the people who pay for and deliver post-secondary education and who will have to deal with any changes to international education policy – should ring alarm bells. More...

2 décembre 2018

France’s New International Education Strategy

By Alex Usher. On Monday, Campus France (which is roughly equivalent to Canada’s CBIE, if CBIE were an arms-length government agency) published its new Stratégie d’attractivité pour les étudiants internationaux.  It’s an intriguing document for a couple ofreasons so I thought I would talk a bit about it today. More...

2 décembre 2018

Re-litigating New Brunswick’s Tax Credits

By Alex Usher. You know what?  We at HESA Towers can help with that!  Evidence-based analysis is what we do!  Let’s see if we can’t save the cash-strapped government of New Brunswick a few bucks and do some of this analysis for them, gratis. More...

2 décembre 2018

Ford’s Francophone Fracas

By Alex Usher. Among those legislative and oversight offices abolished last week was that of the French Language Services Commissioner, which is widely – and correctly – viewed as a key pillar supporting minority language rights in the province.  Ontario francophones – and to some degree francophones in Québec as well (see Patrick Lagacé’s forceful piece  in English (!) in yesterday’s La Presse) are rightly angry. More...

2 décembre 2018

Better Northern Higher Education Strategy

By Alex Usher. Higher education strategy in the Canadian north is tricky. Challenges include from the huge distances, the tiny populations, and the responsibility to support Indigenous populations with specific cultural, educational and scientific needs. More...

2 décembre 2018

New Digital Universities

By Alex Usher. 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. More...

2 décembre 2018

Wānangas, Tribal Colleges, and Canadian Indigenous PSE Institutions

By Alex Usher. Now I’ve written a little bit about Wānangas before, and they certainly are an interesting model.  New Zealand has three of them: the largest of the three (Te Wānanga o Aotearoa) has over 20,000 students in 80 or so locations across New Zealand (they’ve largely avoided getting bogged down in campus infrastructure), with a set of program offerings not entirely unlike those of Canadian polytechnics. More...

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