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29 octobre 2017

Why our Science Minister is Going to be Disappointed in Statscan

By Alex Usher. Last week Statscan sent me a consultation form asking my opinions about their ideas on how to change UCASS (the University and College Academic Staff Survey, which like most Statscan products containing the word “college” does not actually include the institutions most of us call “colleges” i.e. community colleges). More...

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29 octobre 2017

Presidential Compensation

By Alex Usher. Over the summer, the revelation that the University of Alberta paid Indira Samarasekera two full years of administrative leave at over $550,000 per year after the conclusion her ten-year (two-term) Presidency caused a series of snit-fits, the most notable one being this one from Paige MacPherson, the Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Growth of Presidential Compensation

By Alex Usher. Yesterday we looked at Presidential pay in international comparison and saw that Canadian university Presidents have fairly low pay compared to equivalents in other English-speaking countries. But, one might argue, that’s the wrong metric. Maybe the real problem isn’t high pay so much as a relatively quick rise in pay over the past few years. More...

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29 octobre 2017

How Families Make PSE Choices

By Alex Usher. Over the last few months at HESA Towers we’ve been doing a lot of interviews of parents of grade 12 students, to help understand what it is that shapes and shifts their perceptions of higher education institutions. I can’t give away much of the content here (that’s for paying customers), but one issue I do think is worth a mention is what we’re finding about how families make decisions about post-secondary education. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Flagship Universities vs World-Class Universities

By Alex Usher. Almost since the “world-class” university paradigm was established fifteen years ago, the concept has faced a backlash. The concept was too focussed on research production, it was unidimensional, it took no account of universities’ other missions, etc. etc. Basically the argument was that if people took the world class university concept seriously, we would have a university monoculture that ignored many important facets of higher education. More...

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29 octobre 2017

England has lost its damn mind over tuition fees

By Alex Usher. Ok, I said I wouldn’t write over the summer unless someone of importance said something titanically stupid. Andrew Adonis, architect of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s education policies crossed that line on Friday with a – yes – titanically stupid column about tuition fees, so here I am. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Welcome Back

By Alex Usher. Morning all. Hope you had a good summer. To welcome you back, let’s take a quick look at state of play in the sector as we start the academic year. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Fundamental Choices on Fundamental Science

By Alex Usher. The federal government has been somewhat quiet on the subject of science funding since the release of the Fundamental Science Review (see previous blogs here here and here) back in April. Within much of the scientific community, which for the most part fell head over heels in love with the Report, this has given cause for concern; personally, I think this is pretty much par for the course, and we aren’t likely to see much in the way of hints about the size of any possible investment until October or so. More...

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29 octobre 2017

A Francophone University for Ontario?

By Alex Usher. On Monday, the Government of Ontario released a proposal for a francophone university in Ontario, saying, effectively, “it’s about time we had one”. This came as a surprise to many, who wondered “well, what about University of Ottawa, Laurentian University and Glendon College?”
But of course, none of these are truly francophone. Well, U of O is in theory but it was swamped by anglophones long ago and now does a majority of its teaching in English. More...

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29 octobre 2017

Free Tuition Developments

By Alex Usher. One major trend of the last couple of years in global higher education has been the arrival of a wave of “free tuition” policies in jurisdictions that formerly charged them and which – in some cases – have substantial private higher education sectors. But announcing free tuition is one thing: actually pulling it off is another. Let’s take a quick look-in at how things are playing out in various parts of the world. More...

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