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Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandatingMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
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All Hands on Deck. Alberta wasn’t the only province to release a report on post-secondary education last Thursday. Out in St. John’s, the three commissioners of the Independent Review of the Post-Secondary Education System in Newfoundland and Labrador finally, after much delay, published its report, pithily entitled All Hands onDeck .
TEN BAD ARGUMENTS ABOUT FREE TUITION IN CANADA So this weekend at the NDP convention, delegates voted in favour of a free tuition policy. Based on a totally unscientific scan of twitter afterwards, here are the ten most common arguments in favour of this move, and why each of them is wrong. 1. The federal government can totally impose free tuition on the provinces. HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS HESA provides insights and solutions to postsecondary policy makers and institutions across Canada and the world. Our expertise in higher education develops policies and plans that improve educational outcomes for governments, institutions, and students alike. From developing our own research projects to creating in-depth reports responding to client needs, we have a proven track record ofABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandatingMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
ALL HANDS ON DECK
All Hands on Deck. Alberta wasn’t the only province to release a report on post-secondary education last Thursday. Out in St. John’s, the three commissioners of the Independent Review of the Post-Secondary Education System in Newfoundland and Labrador finally, after much delay, published its report, pithily entitled All Hands onDeck .
TEN BAD ARGUMENTS ABOUT FREE TUITION IN CANADA So this weekend at the NDP convention, delegates voted in favour of a free tuition policy. Based on a totally unscientific scan of twitter afterwards, here are the ten most common arguments in favour of this move, and why each of them is wrong. 1. The federal government can totally impose free tuition on the provinces.2021 ARCHIVES
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Judging by the feedback on yesterday’s blog, y’all are pretty interested in demography (One Thought followers are the best followers. How great is it that my most popular blogs are about demography?). So, IFALL 2021 - HESA
Even assuming 2 million of those doses go to essential care workers, that still leaves enough vaccines for everyone over 60 to be fully vaccinated by June . Now, while the over-60s only account for 20% of total cases, they account for 71% of hospitalizations and 96% of all deaths. I can’t stress this enough: a COVID where the death rate is THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books.He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at Cambridge who happens to have developed a rather impressive sidelineBUCKETS AND PILLARS
And that is the difference between “bucket” plans and “pillar” plans. Generally, strategic plans all contain three things. There is the “big picture stuff”: that is, vision, mission, and values. There is usually a list of shorter-term objectives, things that need to get done or objectives that need to be met over the period of the THE STATE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IN CANADA, 2020 Instead of reducing the rate of spending growth, many of them chose to ramp up the recruitment of high fee-paying international students. From 2007-08 to 2018-19, international student fees grew from $1.5 billion to $6.9 billion (both figures in 2019 dollars), and from 4% to 13% of total system income (colleges and universities combined). A BRIEF HISTORY OF EXAMS In the 18 th century, absolutist reformers trying to create meritocratic civil services (as opposed to ones run by aristocratic place-holders) decided to put the Jesuits’ “Chinese” system to work. Starting in Prussia, then spreading around Europe over the following century, bureaucrats now had to pass examinations. HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.ABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
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Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the youngMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
BUCKETS AND PILLARS
And that is the difference between “bucket” plans and “pillar” plans. Generally, strategic plans all contain three things. There is the “big picture stuff”: that is, vision, mission, and values. There is usually a list of shorter-term objectives, things that need to get done or objectives that need to be met over the period of the MICRO-CREDENTIALS IN ONTARIO The Ontario policy isn’t so much a waste of money – there are presumably going to be some positive outcomes of the $15 million or so that the province is spending. But it is further evidence that the Ontario government is ignoring the evolving international definitions of micro-credentials. In the short-term that’s no big deal, but inthe
REALLY? YOU THINK? (PBO'S SUPERCLUSTER CRITIQUE) Really? You Think? (PBO’s Supercluster Critique) On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Office released a sharply critical paper concerning the federal government’s Superclusters project, basically saying, that a) the projects are behind schedule and b) most of the numbers used to justify the project in terms of net benefits and newjobs were
LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS Now, looking at root causes is not the same thing as looking for “fault”. Fault lies with management, period. Management’s job is to keep the ship afloat, and collectively, they failed. So did the Board. So did KPMG (someone should sue the living daylights out of KPMG for not flagging that the restricted/unrestricted line has beenbreached).
HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
ABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.TO 2038 - HESA
Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the youngBACK TO 2038
Judging by the feedback on yesterday’s blog, y’all are pretty interested in demography (One Thought followers are the best followers. How great is it that my most popular blogs are about demography?). So, I SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandatingMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
BUCKETS AND PILLARS
And that is the difference between “bucket” plans and “pillar” plans. Generally, strategic plans all contain three things. There is the “big picture stuff”: that is, vision, mission, and values. There is usually a list of shorter-term objectives, things that need to get done or objectives that need to be met over the period of the MICRO-CREDENTIALS IN ONTARIO The Ontario policy isn’t so much a waste of money – there are presumably going to be some positive outcomes of the $15 million or so that the province is spending. But it is further evidence that the Ontario government is ignoring the evolving international definitions of micro-credentials. In the short-term that’s no big deal, but inthe
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Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the young SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandating JUNE-7-2021-FIGURE-2 Higher Education Strategy Associates. 20 Maud Street, Suite 207.Toronto, ON M5V 2M5
GLOBE DATA WRONGNESS On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robin Doolittle. On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy. But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THE HIGHER ED READING LIST It’s the next-to-last blog of the year, and so as usual it’s time to review the various higher ed-related books I have read over the course of 2019, just in case some of you are dying to spend the holidays boning up on higher ed history/policy.I will spare you a potted description of all the 40-odd books, and just stick to thehighlights.
THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR FREE TUITION Sure, it reduces costs for poorer students, but there are cheaper and more progressive ways to do that than to simply provide aid to all, regardless of ability to pay. The argument in favour of charging fees is threefold. One is about fairness: people who gain a personal advantage from using a service (and private returns to education arestill
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN This is the title of a recent-ish book (subtitle: a comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, 1980-2010) edited, and largely written by Don Fisher and Kjell Rubenson of UBC, Teresa Shanahan of York U, and Claude Trottier of Université Laval. Despite a couple of significant faults, it’s well worth a read. The book’s main strengths are the three chapters that act as MODULARIZATION VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES The point of the modularization agenda is very much about making the credentials easier to obtain, and the explicit trade-off made is the coherence of the degree being offered. To put this another way: the learning outcomes agenda is based on a human capital vision of higher education; the modularization agenda is very much about credentialism. HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.ABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
TO 2038 - HESA
Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the youngMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
BUCKETS AND PILLARS
And that is the difference between “bucket” plans and “pillar” plans. Generally, strategic plans all contain three things. There is the “big picture stuff”: that is, vision, mission, and values. There is usually a list of shorter-term objectives, things that need to get done or objectives that need to be met over the period of the MICRO-CREDENTIALS IN ONTARIO The Ontario policy isn’t so much a waste of money – there are presumably going to be some positive outcomes of the $15 million or so that the province is spending. But it is further evidence that the Ontario government is ignoring the evolving international definitions of micro-credentials. In the short-term that’s no big deal, but inthe
REALLY? YOU THINK? (PBO'S SUPERCLUSTER CRITIQUE) Really? You Think? (PBO’s Supercluster Critique) On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Office released a sharply critical paper concerning the federal government’s Superclusters project, basically saying, that a) the projects are behind schedule and b) most of the numbers used to justify the project in terms of net benefits and newjobs were
LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS Now, looking at root causes is not the same thing as looking for “fault”. Fault lies with management, period. Management’s job is to keep the ship afloat, and collectively, they failed. So did the Board. So did KPMG (someone should sue the living daylights out of KPMG for not flagging that the restricted/unrestricted line has beenbreached).
HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.ABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
TO 2038 - HESA
Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the youngMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
BUCKETS AND PILLARS
And that is the difference between “bucket” plans and “pillar” plans. Generally, strategic plans all contain three things. There is the “big picture stuff”: that is, vision, mission, and values. There is usually a list of shorter-term objectives, things that need to get done or objectives that need to be met over the period of the MICRO-CREDENTIALS IN ONTARIO The Ontario policy isn’t so much a waste of money – there are presumably going to be some positive outcomes of the $15 million or so that the province is spending. But it is further evidence that the Ontario government is ignoring the evolving international definitions of micro-credentials. In the short-term that’s no big deal, but inthe
REALLY? YOU THINK? (PBO'S SUPERCLUSTER CRITIQUE) Really? You Think? (PBO’s Supercluster Critique) On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Office released a sharply critical paper concerning the federal government’s Superclusters project, basically saying, that a) the projects are behind schedule and b) most of the numbers used to justify the project in terms of net benefits and newjobs were
LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS Now, looking at root causes is not the same thing as looking for “fault”. Fault lies with management, period. Management’s job is to keep the ship afloat, and collectively, they failed. So did the Board. So did KPMG (someone should sue the living daylights out of KPMG for not flagging that the restricted/unrestricted line has beenbreached).
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Universities - and to a lesser extent colleges - are dependent for their livelihood on a steady supply of young people coming through their doors. For the past decade or so, most of the young SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandating JUNE-7-2021-FIGURE-2 Higher Education Strategy Associates. 20 Maud Street, Suite 207.Toronto, ON M5V 2M5
GLOBE DATA WRONGNESS On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robin Doolittle. On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy. But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THE HIGHER ED READING LIST It’s the next-to-last blog of the year, and so as usual it’s time to review the various higher ed-related books I have read over the course of 2019, just in case some of you are dying to spend the holidays boning up on higher ed history/policy.I will spare you a potted description of all the 40-odd books, and just stick to thehighlights.
THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR FREE TUITION Sure, it reduces costs for poorer students, but there are cheaper and more progressive ways to do that than to simply provide aid to all, regardless of ability to pay. The argument in favour of charging fees is threefold. One is about fairness: people who gain a personal advantage from using a service (and private returns to education arestill
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
THE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN This is the title of a recent-ish book (subtitle: a comparison between British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec, 1980-2010) edited, and largely written by Don Fisher and Kjell Rubenson of UBC, Teresa Shanahan of York U, and Claude Trottier of Université Laval. Despite a couple of significant faults, it’s well worth a read. The book’s main strengths are the three chapters that act as MODULARIZATION VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES The point of the modularization agenda is very much about making the credentials easier to obtain, and the explicit trade-off made is the coherence of the degree being offered. To put this another way: the learning outcomes agenda is based on a human capital vision of higher education; the modularization agenda is very much about credentialism. HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.ABOUT US - HESA
Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandatingMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
REALLY? YOU THINK? (PBO'S SUPERCLUSTER CRITIQUE) Really? You Think? (PBO’s Supercluster Critique) On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Office released a sharply critical paper concerning the federal government’s Superclusters project, basically saying, that a) the projects are behind schedule and b) most of the numbers used to justify the project in terms of net benefits and newjobs were
TEN BAD ARGUMENTS ABOUT FREE TUITION IN CANADA So this weekend at the NDP convention, delegates voted in favour of a free tuition policy. Based on a totally unscientific scan of twitter afterwards, here are the ten most common arguments in favour of this move, and why each of them is wrong. 1. The federal government can totally impose free tuition on the provinces. HOME - HESABLOGALEX USHERABOUTSERVICESSHOWCASEPUBLICATIONS Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) provides strategic insight and guidance to governments, post-secondary institutions, and agencies through excellence and expertise in policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and strategic consulting services. Through these activities HESA strives to improve the quality, efficacy, and fairnessof
BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.ABOUT US - HESA
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SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Institutionally, part-time and short-course programs at the undergraduate level often lacked a home in universities. They were usually controlled by Faculties of Continuing Education; less frequently they belonged to individual faculties. In the 1980s, when there was a surge of part-time students (mainly due to provincial governments mandatingMICROCREDENTIALS
Badging is mostly an attempt to certify the presence of specific skills that are not necessarily program related (the term is meant to be redolent of Guides and Scouts); microcredentials tend to denote mastery of certain content, in the same way a degree or diploma does. This nomenclature is not universally observed – a number ofinstitutions
SUPPORT > ILLUMINATION Support > Illumination. Some things never change. Specifically, the demands of the academic left in Canada. Take, for instance, the “ Education for All Campaign ” which was launched in late January. A joint project of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the Canadian Unionof
THAT ALBERTA PSE STRATEGY (FINALLY) Last Thursday, the Government of Alberta finally released the long-awaited Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, optimistically subtitled “a 10-year strategy for post-secondary education”. So, after all the hullaballoo of the last year or so,what
WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? What is Stefan Collini For? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books . He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature andIntellectual
REALLY? YOU THINK? (PBO'S SUPERCLUSTER CRITIQUE) Really? You Think? (PBO’s Supercluster Critique) On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Office released a sharply critical paper concerning the federal government’s Superclusters project, basically saying, that a) the projects are behind schedule and b) most of the numbers used to justify the project in terms of net benefits and newjobs were
TEN BAD ARGUMENTS ABOUT FREE TUITION IN CANADA So this weekend at the NDP convention, delegates voted in favour of a free tuition policy. Based on a totally unscientific scan of twitter afterwards, here are the ten most common arguments in favour of this move, and why each of them is wrong. 1. The federal government can totally impose free tuition on the provinces. GLOBE DATA WRONGNESS On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robin Doolittle. On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy. But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data NEW STRATEGY IN MANITOBA Well, the strategy has four “high-level objectives”, to wit: i) anticipate skills needed for the future, ii) align education and training to labour market needs and help students succeed now and in the future, iii) foster entrepreneurial and innovative skills and iv) THE STATE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IN CANADA, 2020 Instead of reducing the rate of spending growth, many of them chose to ramp up the recruitment of high fee-paying international students. From 2007-08 to 2018-19, international student fees grew from $1.5 billion to $6.9 billion (both figures in 2019 dollars), and from 4% to 13% of total system income (colleges and universities combined). WHAT IS STEFAN COLLINI FOR? If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books.He’s not a higher education specialist (as he frequently disclaims in his work); rather, he is a professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at Cambridge who happens to have developed a rather impressive sideline THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR FREE TUITION Sure, it reduces costs for poorer students, but there are cheaper and more progressive ways to do that than to simply provide aid to all, regardless of ability to pay. The argument in favour of charging fees is threefold. One is about fairness: people who gain a personal advantage from using a service (and private returns to education arestill
CAPE BRETON, YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME The extra money generated by the 2500 or so new international students is equal to about $46 million. In 2017-18, Cape Breton’s entireoperating budget was $54.3 million. If there are any other institutions in Canada that have ever seen an 85% increase in their operating budget over the space of two years, I don’t know of them.One final
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All Hands on Deck. Alberta wasn’t the only province to release a report on post-secondary education last Thursday. Out in St. John’s, the three commissioners of the Independent Review of the Post-Secondary Education System in Newfoundland and Labrador finally, after much delay, published its report, pithily entitled All Hands onDeck .
LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS Now, looking at root causes is not the same thing as looking for “fault”. Fault lies with management, period. Management’s job is to keep the ship afloat, and collectively, they failed. So did the Board. So did KPMG (someone should sue the living daylights out of KPMG for not flagging that the restricted/unrestricted line has beenbreached).
MODULARIZATION VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES The point of the modularization agenda is very much about making the credentials easier to obtain, and the explicit trade-off made is the coherence of the degree being offered. To put this another way: the learning outcomes agenda is based on a human capital vision of higher education; the modularization agenda is very much about credentialism. FEDERATED UNIVERSITIES (A KIND OF LAURENTIAN STORY) The Catholic University of Sudbury pre-dates Laurentian by a few decades, and when Sudbury first started agitating for a publicly-funded university it was the leading candidate to take over. The problem is, local anglophone WASPs were scandalized at the idea that a Roman Catholic institution might lead the charge.Skip to content __
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Yesterday, we looked at some of the math behind Ontario’s new funding system, and how a system which is allegedly “60% performance-based funding” will at most result in about $15 million, or 0.4%, of funding re-allocated in some way. But there are still more oddities to explore. One of my favourite foibles about this funding system is how it seems to have been constructed one element at a time, with no overall strategic intent. For instance: the main goal of the enrolment-based …Posted in Canada ,
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Morning all. Last week, the Government of Ontario published all the new Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMAs) that it signed with the province’s 40-odd universities and colleges. Included in each of these documents were key information around the “Revolutionary” Performance-Based Funding system announced in April 2019. This was important first because it confirmed the indicators in use (in the entire 20 months since the PBF was announced, the government never publicly stated what the indicators would be: appallingly, everything we have known about …Posted in Canada ,
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Strategic Mandate Agreements 1 Comment on Ontario’s PBF System: Much Ado About Nothing ------------------------- 2018/19 ENROLMENT DATA December 1, 2020December 1, 2020| Alex Usher
Last Thursday was that frabjous day which every higher education nerd has pencilled into their calendar: where Statscan publishes post-secondary enrolment data and for one brief moment we go from having enrolment data which is 37 months out of date to a mere 25 months out of date. Now, the big picture will be familiar to everyone who read The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, because I already went and got most of this data from institutional websites, but the …Posted in Canada ,
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