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6 avril 2019

That Weird Budget Commitment on Student Mobility

If you recall, way back in the middle of March, there was a federal budget (see our analysis here). And as increasingly seems to be the case with Liberal budgets these days, there were a lot of unknowns. Stuff that hadn’t been thought through. Announcements on vague generalities with no actual policies behind them. More...

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6 avril 2019

Skills Accounts: Singapore

Since it’s budget time next week and everyone I know thinks we are fated to have an announcement around Individual Skills Accounts (ISAs) I thought I would give a little bit of prominence to the two countries there that have been most active this area recently and talk about their experience. And so, today, I’ll be talking about Singapore and tomorrow, France. More...

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6 avril 2019

Best Higher Ed Scandal of the Year

Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits were arrested by federal agents in multiple states and charged in documents unsealed on March 12, 2019, in federal court in Boston. More...

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6 avril 2019

Strange, Inconsistent Arguments for Free Tuition

Now, you must think about this sentence for a second. Leave aside the fact that income tax in Canada is already relatively progressive (the top 1% of income earners pay 17.9% of all income taxes paid, the top 20% pay 64.4% of all income taxes, and 55.9% of total taxes) – no doubt one could make it more so by various contrivances if we wanted to. More...

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6 avril 2019

Excellence Initiatives

Over the past couple of decades, countries have designed policies to improve their research universities and make them more “world-class”, largely on the assumption that this will pay some kind of economic dividend. More...

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6 avril 2019

A Flawed Report on Sexual Violence

You may remember a couple of years ago I expressed some concern about the structure of a survey on sexual harassment and sexual violence being designed by the Ministry of Training Colleges and University in Ontario. More...

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6 avril 2019

Excellence vs Progress

Earlier this week, I was in Moscow at a session talking about (among other things) national excellence programs, making the point that there aren’t really that many examples of successful ones. More...

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6 avril 2019

Budget 2019 Commentary

Good morning all. Here’s your 2019 Budget Commentary ready for your review, brought to you through a globe-spanning collaboration between the team at HESA Towers and your humble correspondent pulling an all-nighter in the Arbat. We hope you enjoy it. More...

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6 avril 2019

What to Look for in Tonight’s Budget

The likeliest “simple” (as in, simple to implement) tweak would be an increase in the size of the Canada Student Grant which, in Ontario at least, would be portrayed as backfilling where that nasty Doug Ford has chosen to attack students. More...

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6 avril 2019

Organizing Science

I’m on my way to Moscow today. It’s become one of my favourite destinations not only because I can walk around and pretend I am in my favourite novels (I highly recommend an early morning stroll to the Patriarch Ponds and then sit on one of the benches to read the opening chapter of The Master and Margarita) but also because Russia in general holds a mirror up to the west and makes you question the “normal” order of things. More...

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