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19 décembre 2015

Innovation Ecosystems: Promise and Opportunism

By Alex Usher. We sometimes think of innovation policy as being about generating better ideas through things like sponsored research. And that’s certainly one part of it. But if those ideas are generated in a vacuum, they go nowhere – making ideas spread faster is the second pillar of innovation policy. More...

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19 décembre 2015

H > A > H

By Alex Usher. I am a big fan of the economist Paul Romer, who is most famous for putting knowledge and the generation thereof at the centre of discussions on growth. Recently, on (roughly) the 25th anniversary of the publication of his paper on Endogeneous Technological Change, he wrote a series of blog posts looking back on some of the issues related to this theory. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Defending Liberal Arts: Try Using Data

By Alex Usher. A few weeks back, I wrote about the Liberals Arts/humanities, and some really bad arguments both for and against them. As usual when I write these, I got a lot of feedback to the effect of: “well, how would you defend the Liberal Arts, smart guy”? Which, you know, fair enough. So, here’s my answer. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Every University and College Needs a Fool

By Alex Usher. OK, yes, lots of ways to complete that sentence (e.g. “Every university and college needs a fool… and mine already has several”, etc.). But I mean this in a very literal sense. Institutions need the equivalent of Medieval Fools, or Court Jesters, to help them combat bad institutional culture. More...

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19 décembre 2015

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Universities and Colleges

By Alex Usher. One of the problems in higher education is that there’s a whole lot of effort expended on “who’s the best” (which, as measured by most rankings, is some function of money, age, and size), and not a lot of serious effort put into answering the question: “how can institutions get better”? (Or at least, in finding answers that don’t boil down to: publish more/get more international students). More...

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19 décembre 2015

The Higher Education of Heads of Government

By Alex Usher. In this exercise, I look at the records for Canadian, British, Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand Prime Ministers, German Chancellors, and French and American Presidents. I would have included Italy but politicians’ Wikipedia bios are weirdly silent on education (even in the Italian versions). I take all leaders back to 1900, except in New Zealand where Dominion Status was not granted until 1907, and Japan where I stop at 1945 because holy moley there are a lot of them. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Canadian PMs’ Higher Education Experiences

By Alex Usher. For giggles the other night, I started looking up the educational backgrounds of various countries’ heads of government. I’ll do the other countries tomorrow; today, I thought I’d start with Canada. Let’s do it by the numbers. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Beyond Tenure

By Alex Usher. Today, Higher Education Strategy Associates is releasing a paper called Beyond Tenure: Faculty Employment Protection at Canadian Universities (available here). More...

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19 décembre 2015

The 2015 OECD Education at a Glance

By Alex Usher. So the OECD’s Education at a Glance was published yesterday. It’s taken a couple of months longer than usual because of the need to convert into the new International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) system. No, don’t ask; it’s better not to know. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Class Size, Teaching Loads, and that Curious CUDO Data Redux

By Alex Usher. You may recall that last week I posted some curious data from CUDO, which suggested that the ratio of undergraduate “classes” (we’re not entirely sure what this means) to full-time professors in Ontario was an amazingly-low 2.4 to 1. Three quick follow-ups to that piece. More...

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