Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Cour des Comptes. Mission Recherche et Enseignement supérieur, note d’analyse de l’exécution budgétaire 2018, 169 pages.
Yesterday, the good folks at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University released their 2019 world ranking of university research output. This is – in my opinion – the best bibliometric ranking out there: it is complete, nuanced and the people putting it out have thought hard and responsibly about what it means to use quantitatively evaluate research. I thought it was time to have a quick look at the research landscape across Canada. More...Every year around this time, I do a simple piece summarizing all the provincial budgets. I usually wait until all ten are done – so y’all get the full national picture – but unfortunately that’s not possible this year because neither PEI nor Alberta, both of whom quite recently acquired new administrations, are planning on getting budgets out the door before I break for the summer. More...Magic and dragons aside, Westeros seems like your basic high medieval economy/society – 13th or 14th century, by the look of it. Europe at this point in its history had several dozen universities, dotted across Italy, Spain, France, England, Germany and Bohemia. But Westeros only seems to have one higher education institution, known as the Citadel. More...I was at a conference last week in Italy, much of which focused around the use of data in institutional decision-making (technically it was a conference on rankings, but increasingly rankings are being seen as a data source for institutional benchmarking and strategizing rather than as a consumer tool, so there was a lot of overlap). More...I have noted over the years that there is a strain of thought in the humanities which absolutely revels in its own demise. I call it “humanities disaster porn”, in which pretty much any tale of atrocities being committed on the humanities must be true because we can conceive of it being true. More...
By . I have just completed a visit to my third Danish university (University of Copenhagen in 2004, Syddansk University in 2017, and now Aalborg University this week. I was also in Copenhagen in 2008 for a conference organised by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Development). More...
One of the challenges of policy making is that issues are sometimes defined in stereotypes. This is particularly true of university education. Television programmes such as Fresh Meat have portrayed students as living in self-imposed squalor. Poor housing conditions are seen as a rite of passage, rather than the result of an unforgiving housing market. More...
Journalists’ headlines are fair game of course, and always have been, but sometimes you wince a bit more than usual, and reading of independent schools’ ‘woe’ about more state school pupils getting into Oxbridge was a bit much. Writing in this Saturday’s Times, an education correspondent was keen to keep alive the demon of sector divide, and depict us as hand-wringing, beleaguered Heads, seeing our pupils are a threatened species. More...
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