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16 juin 2019

Closing Programs

You may, over the past year, followed the story of Stevens Point, a mid-sized (8000 student) regional campus in the University of Wisconsin system. I want to look at this story today, because I think it contains some important lessons about how universities actually make and spend their money. More...

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16 juin 2019

Balanced Budgets

A few weeks ago, the federal and länder governments in Germany reached a ten-year accord with respect to funding for scientific research. Result: a decade of planned 3% annual increases. Needless to say, this elicited quite a few envious glances from folks in Canada, who only get funding increases in jerky fashion, often after years of neglect. More...

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16 juin 2019

Does My Institution Need a Strategic Plan?

As our company’s name suggests, we think a lot about strategic planning here at HESA Towers. And after a decade of doing this job, I have come to the conclusion that while most institutions do not spend enough time planning, too many of those that do issue plans are under the mistaken that these plans are in any way strategic. More...

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16 juin 2019

Two Important Statscan Papers

Statistics Canada released a couple of papers in the last month which unfairly got zero play in the general media, so thought I would pick them up and amplify them here. More...

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16 juin 2019

Age 71

Ontario is a weird place sometimes. One month ago, the government announced that it was implementing a performance-based funding plan which – if you took the government’s half-thought-out comments seriously – raised the possibility that hundreds of millions or perhaps even billions of dollars currently projected to be spent on institutions might be snatched away if institutions failed to hit some ill-defined targets in a type of contract-based funding system. More...

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16 juin 2019

Adversity Scores

Who deserves to go to university? Particularly the prestigious ones with selective admissions?
It’s easy enough to say “everyone”, or “anyone with the ability to benefit from it”, but when it comes to any specific institution, usually the demand for spaces exceeds the supply. When that happens, some type of rationing procedure comes into play. In nearly every country in the world (Canada is a rare exception), this rationing gets done either partly or completely on the basis of a set of standardized exams. More...

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16 juin 2019

Policy Stasis in Australia

On the higher education front, the line between the two parties was clear. The coalition under Abbott tried to cut grants to universities while allowing them to recoup funds through a program of radical de-regulation. Those plans foundered in the Senate, where the government did not have a majority and could not convince the smaller parties to support the plan. More...

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16 juin 2019

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 3 – Some strategies for survival

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By Tony Bates. I have argued in earlier posts that universities and colleges (everywhere, not just Canada) need to move more quickly into digital learning for two separate but linked reasons:

to develop the knowledge and skills needed in a digital age
to enable students to know how better to manage and control the digitalization of their lives.

Although Canadian institutions are moving in the direction of more digital learning, it is still a relatively marginalised movement. We need to move to the point where almost all courses include a mix of digital and face-to-face learning, or are fully online, within the next five years. More...

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16 juin 2019

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 2 – The Canadian context

By Tony Bates. This is the second in a series of posts on this topic. The first post looked at external developments that will influence Canadian post-secondary education in the future. In this post, I focus particularly on the Canadian context. More...

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16 juin 2019

The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 1 – External Developments

By Tony Bates. MOOCs are an interesting and useful development, but they have settled into a niche for continuing education and corporate training rather than disrupting the current system. More...

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