Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Dès 1285, année de son avènement, Philippe le Bel avait donné son appui aux prétentions du comte de Foix sur Pamiers, au détriment de l'Église. En 1292, le pape Nicolas IV avait réagi en plaçant la juridiction ecclésiastique dans la ville sous la protection spéciale de la papauté. Il avait alors confié cette protection au cardinal Benedetto Caetani – le futur Boniface VIII. Voir l'article...
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Rome. L’université créée en 1303 par le pape Boniface VIII. La même année, celle de sa mort, il fonda aussi l’université d’Avignon.
Au 14ème siècle, l’université connut beaucoup de difficultés, liées en particulier à l’installation de la papauté en Avignon, puis au Grand schisme d’occident. Voir l'article...
By . Now you may have seen a headline recently talking about skyrocketing mental health problems among students. Specifically, this one from the Toronto Star, which says, among other things:
A major survey of 25,164 Ontario university students by the American College Health Association showed that between 2013 and 2016, there was a 50-per-cent increase in anxiety, a 47-per-cent increase in depression and an 86-per-cent increase in substance abuse. Suicide attempts also rose 47 per cent during that period.
That’s a pretty stunning set of numbers. More...
By . I have been perusing a quite astonishingly detailed survey that was recently released regarding student health. Run by the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment, this multi-campus exercise has been run twice now in Canada – once in 2013 and once in 2016. Today, I’m going to look at what the 2016 results say, which are interesting in and of themselves. Tomorrow, I’m going to look at how the data has changed since 2013 and why I think some claims about worsening student health outcomes (particularly mental health) need to be viewed with some caution. If I get really nerdy over the weekend, I might do some Canada-US comparisons, too. More...
By . The first is the total income of Canadian universities over the past 35 years, in constant dollars. What it shows is that total income has increased in a relatively steady fashion ever since the late 1990s (the slight spikiness of the last decade has more to do with uneven endowment income than anything else). Total income for 2014-15 was around $35 billion, or more than double the figure of twenty years earlier, even after accounting for inflation. More...
By . British Prime Minister Theresa May resigned her office today after a series of revelations that she had been in the pay of a foreign power since 2009. Though both parties continue to deny the specifics of the story, a series of leaks from Universities Canada in the Canadian capital of Ottawa made it clear that the British politician had been receiving payments from this country’s universities for over a decade. More...
By . Passing through Halifax airport on Thursday, I realised that I have been remiss in not yet having covered the party platforms for tomorrow’s provincial election. So, I set about reading the party platforms and then immediately wished I hadn’t because they’re basically a tidy encapsulation of most of what’s wrong with higher education policy in Canada. More...
By . I spent a very interesting evening this week at a Vancouver VR Community event at Mobify‘s headquarters in downtown Vancouver. Mobify is a provider of progressive web apps for e-commerce and has a really cool area for events such as this one, with lots of open spaces. More...By . This excellent article describes in detail a new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities introduced by the U.K. government, as well as a thoughtful discussion. As I have a son and daughter-in-law teaching in a U.K. university and grandchildren either as students or potential students, I have more than an academic interest in this topic. More...By . Because Athabasca University, established in 1971 as a fully distance, open university, has been in serious trouble over the last 10 years. In 2015, its Acting President issued a report saying that ‘Athabasca University (AU) will be unable to pay its debt in two years if immediate action is not taken.’ It needed an additional $25 million just to solve its IT problems. Two years earlier, the AU’s senior administrators were savagely grilled by provincial legislators about the financial management of the university, to such an extent that it seemed that the Government of Alberta might well pull the plug on the university. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
