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30 juin 2018

Why Student Debt Won’t Fall

By Alex Usher. Since 2011, the amount of grant aid available to students has increased enormously in Canada. Partly that’s due to the 2016 Federal, Ontario and New Brunswick budgets, which shifted a whole whack of tax credits to grants, as well a more long-term shift towards grants and away from loans in both Ontario and Quebec as well as, more recently, Prince Edward Island as well. More...

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30 juin 2018

Post-Soviet Higher Education

By Alex Usher. As loyal readers know, I am a big believer that Soviet Higher Education teaches some real eternal truths about our sector (see here and here in particular). This week I’ve been reading a book of essays called 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity. More...

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30 juin 2018

A Decline in Apprenticeships?

By Alex Usher. A few years ago, I made the observation that Canada’s big run-up in apprenticeship numbers was highly correlated with the commodity price super-cycle (in particular, the price of oil) and that an era of low energy/commodity prices might lead to a big decrease in demand for apprentices. More...

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30 juin 2018

A Taxonomy of Private Universities

By Alex Usher. When people hear the words “private higher education”, most North Americans’ imaginations immediately jump to one of two mental images: prestigious Ivy League universities, or predatory chains of private colleges like ITT Technical Institutes or Corinthian Colleges or something like that. But private higher education globally is actually more varied than this. Let’s take a quick tour. More...

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30 juin 2018

Aurora College

By Alex Usher. The Government of the Northwest Territories published a Foundational Review of Aurora College, which is causing something of a stir north of 60. Recent times have not been good for the college. More...

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30 juin 2018

Chinese Higher Education in Four Graphs

By Alex Usher. Every once in awhile you have to just sit and marvel at what the Chinese government has managed to pull off in higher education. Since the turn of the millennium, enrolments have increased five-fold. More...

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30 juin 2018

More York

By Alex Usher. Judging by most of my mail bag, yesterday’s piece on the York strike was a hit. So, I thought I would throw in two tidbits which I didn’t really get to yesterday, as well as give my suggestion for a way out of the strike. More...

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30 juin 2018

The York Strike

By Alex Usher. Back on March 5, CUPE local 3903, which represents graduate students, contract faculty and graduate assistants at York University, went on strike. A university offer was resoundingly rejected by the union membership in early April. The union has consistently rejected arbitration. More...

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30 juin 2018

The Canadian Way of Quality Assurance

By Alex Usher. Occasionally, I write pieces noting how oddball Canadian higher education is in international context, usually in ways that are poorly understood. I want to do that again today, specifically with the notion of external quality assurance, a topic so foreign to much of Canadian academia that it sounds entirely made up. More...

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30 juin 2018

Post-Secondary Education, Skills, and Growth

By Alex Usher. Over the weekend, I’ve been doing two things: obsessing about who I am going to vote for in this godawful Ontario election, and reading about post-Soviet Russia (in particular, Stephen Kotkin’s Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000). More...

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