Notes on Canada’s International Advantages (and Disadvantages)

By Alex Usher. During my brief trip to Asia, I spent a fair bit of time chatting with people who one way or another are in the international education business.  Two somewhat connected thoughts:

1. Canadians Continue to be Not Very Good at the Whole International Campus Thing.

  I spent a couple of days in Dubai, where there are now somewhere on the order of 100-odd institutions operating, a substantial portion of which are international.  The only “semi”- Canadian one is an outfit called the “Canadian University of Dubai”, which is a fascinating little organization. More...