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...

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...

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...

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...

Australia, Canada and the EU are snapping at our universities’ heels as UK immigration policy is putting off talented young people. More...