Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Veit Wagner (1420 – c. 1517), sculpteur allemand, actif à Strasbourg de 1495 à sa mort. Plus...Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Pour fêter le 85e anniversaire de Tomi Ungerer, 100 artistes de France et d’ailleurs ont taillé leurs crayons pour illustrer les liens que leur œuvre entretient avec celle de leur aîné. Si celle-ci s’est d’ores et déjà inscrite par sa diversité et sa créativité dans le vaste champ de l’histoire de l’art, il était temps en effet de se pencher sur ce qu’elle laisse en héritages. Plus...
By . Sometimes Canadian universities drive me up the wall. Mostly, it’s when they start lobbying for other people to take action in areas where the clearest problems lie within their own wheelhouse. I speak in particular of Study Abroad and Work-Integrated Learning. More...
By . Yesterday, I described Income Share Agreements (ISAs) as basically a version of Milton Friedman-like Human Capital Contracts, which are very much like privately administered graduate taxes. More...
By . Every once in awhile, someone comes up a “new” concept in student financing and people get very excited about it. As in most other policy fields, the “newness” is a matter of perspective and debate: there’s only so many ways you can lend students money and many of the “new” ideas are just old ideas that got discarded for various reasons and resurrect either because circumstances have changed or because proponents aren’t aware of the history (or both). More...
By . One of the things post-secondary education does poorly is questioning its orthodoxies, particularly when it comes to the value of what it is the sector produces. I’m talking in particular about graduate skills. More...
By . If you’ve hung around higher education for even a millisecond, you’ll know that the sector is often told that it should listen more to industry. More...
By . If you pay attention to the train wreck that is higher education policy in the UK, you will no doubt quickly come across claims that “marketization” is to blame. Skyrocketing vice-chancellor’s (i.e. President’s) salaries? Marketization at work. Student Mental Health pressure? Also marketization. More...
By . I received a note from someone in a federal ministry in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago. It asked, would I be interested in having dinner with Minister (name withheld)? You know, look into new policy initiatives, want to talk to a few experts, break bread together etc. More...
By . Last week, the Government of British Columbia became the first province to submit a budget for 2019-2020. The province’s finances are in exceedingly good shape, with a surplus of over $1.5 billion (though the government is hiding most of that using various tricks like contingency funds, forecast allowances, etc). More...
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