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We are Higher Education Strategy Associates. 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. BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION A few weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a paper profiling graduates of community colleges who already held bachelor’s degrees.A significant number of these were graduates of foreign universities – immigrants who came to the country with a degree andMICROCREDENTIALS
One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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 Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and theALL 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 on Deck.. Just to give you a rundown on the province before we get into the report LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. 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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report. 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. 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 - HESA
We are Higher Education Strategy Associates. 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. BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION A few weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a paper profiling graduates of community colleges who already held bachelor’s degrees.A significant number of these were graduates of foreign universities – immigrants who came to the country with a degree andMICROCREDENTIALS
One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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 Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and theALL 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 on Deck.. Just to give you a rundown on the province before we get into the report LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. 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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report. 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.HOME - HESA
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THE STATE OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IN CANADA, 2020 Our annual publication, The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, is out today. You can read it here. Consider it your free annual almanac of everything PSE-related in Canada. If you have any suggestions for improvement in future years, please let me know. 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
JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS ON RANKINGS You may have seen stories in Inside Higher Ed and University World News about the QS World Rankings, and specifically, a claim by a Senior Researcher at Berkeley named Igor Chirikov that QS’s conflicts of interest “may produce significant distortions in global university rankings”. Cue much clucking on the interwebs about issues with rankings. LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR FREE TUITION As you’ve all probably noticed over the years, I have little patience for most arguments for free or reduced tuition. There’s not much evidence it improves access. Sure, it MODULARIZATION VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES If you've been near education conferences in the last year or so, the chances are that you've heard at least one of the two following propositions. 1) “Modularization is the Future”. People don’t need full degrees, they need knowledge in FEDERATED UNIVERSITIES (A KIND OF LAURENTIAN STORY) Alex?, You slso need to look at the Laurentian Act. Specifically, specifically, Federation of church-related colleges. d) to admit church-related universities or colleges into federation as colleges of the Faculty of Arts and Science, which church-related universities or colleges have the right to give instruction in philosophy and religious knowledge and in such other subjects as may from 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
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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
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 .
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).
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
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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
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 .
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).
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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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).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 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. 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).
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. 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. 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
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
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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
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
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
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 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
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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
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
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
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 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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JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS ON RANKINGS Jumping to Conclusions on Rankings. You may have seen stories in Inside Higher Ed and University World News about the QS World Rankings, and specifically, a claim by a Senior Researcher at Berkeley named Igor Chirikov that QS’s conflicts of interest “may produce significant distortions in global university rankings”. 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
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
MARGINAL COSTS, MARGINAL REVENUE Briefly, in the production of any good, unit-costs fall to start with as the benefits of economies of scale start to rise. Eventually, however, if production is expanded far enough you get diseconomies of scale, and the marginal cost begins to rise. Where the marginal cost of producing one more unit of a good rises above the marginal revenue 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. 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. 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 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 - HESA
We are Higher Education Strategy Associates. 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. BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION A few weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a paper profiling graduates of community colleges who already held bachelor’s degrees.A significant number of these were graduates of foreign universities – immigrants who came to the country with a degree andMICROCREDENTIALS
One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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
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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report.BUCKETS AND PILLARS
We’ve been working hard at HESA Towers the last couple of weeks on strategic plans (currently at Queen’s and Memorial). One of my colleagues, Michael Savage, has been working on some comparative work on strategic plans, some of which we’ll tell you about tomorrow. LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. MOOCS VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES Actually, it would take little time, and little effort, to construct a complete program out of a number of related MOOCs. Mark my words, Coursera will do so as soon as possible, if, as it has already demonstrated, it knows what’s good for students. 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 - HESA
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One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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
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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report.BUCKETS AND PILLARS
We’ve been working hard at HESA Towers the last couple of weeks on strategic plans (currently at Queen’s and Memorial). One of my colleagues, Michael Savage, has been working on some comparative work on strategic plans, some of which we’ll tell you about tomorrow. LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. MOOCS VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES Actually, it would take little time, and little effort, to construct a complete program out of a number of related MOOCs. Mark my words, Coursera will do so as soon as possible, if, as it has already demonstrated, it knows what’s good for students.HOME - HESA
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We are Higher Education Strategy Associates. 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. BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION A few weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a paper profiling graduates of community colleges who already held bachelor’s degrees.A significant number of these were graduates of foreign universities – immigrants who came to the country with a degree andMICROCREDENTIALS
One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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
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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report.BUCKETS AND PILLARS
We’ve been working hard at HESA Towers the last couple of weeks on strategic plans (currently at Queen’s and Memorial). One of my colleagues, Michael Savage, has been working on some comparative work on strategic plans, some of which we’ll tell you about tomorrow. LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. MOOCS VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES Actually, it would take little time, and little effort, to construct a complete program out of a number of related MOOCs. Mark my words, Coursera will do so as soon as possible, if, as it has already demonstrated, it knows what’s good for students. 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 - HESA
We are Higher Education Strategy Associates. 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. BLOG - HESA - HOME - HESA Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. SHORT COURSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION A few weeks ago, Statistics Canada released a paper profiling graduates of community colleges who already held bachelor’s degrees.A significant number of these were graduates of foreign universities – immigrants who came to the country with a degree andMICROCREDENTIALS
One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”. Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as 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
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 new jobs were utter nonsense.. It’s actually not that interesting a report.BUCKETS AND PILLARS
We’ve been working hard at HESA Towers the last couple of weeks on strategic plans (currently at Queen’s and Memorial). One of my colleagues, Michael Savage, has been working on some comparative work on strategic plans, some of which we’ll tell you about tomorrow. LAURENTIAN BLUES (8) CAUSES, FAULT, AND LESSONS It is not hard to believe that faculty have a sense of obligation to the university. It is, however, hard to believe that a faculty union, in a strike year (2017), lodged a grievance to initiate a proceeding with the purpose of reducing university expenditure. MOOCS VS. LEARNING OUTCOMES Actually, it would take little time, and little effort, to construct a complete program out of a number of related MOOCs. Mark my words, Coursera will do so as soon as possible, if, as it has already demonstrated, it knows what’s good for students.HOME - HESA
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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
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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 .
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
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
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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
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 .
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
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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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 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.Skip to content __
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Let’s talk about Ryerson and McGill. In brief: McGill University is named after James McGill, a Montreal fur-trader and farmer. He was not a particularly notable figure in life, but after his death in 1813 he left a reasonably large bequest, including most of the land on which the downtown campus now sits, to start a college. He also over the course of his life owned five slaves (three Black, two Indigenous). In brief: Ryerson University is named for Egerton …Posted in Canada ,
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Let’s say you live in one of those former socialist countries with a really old-fashioned higher education system. Your universities are insular because they have almost no contact with the private sector. Internally, they are managed by an academic oligarchy. Externally, they report directly to a government– no Board of Governors, just a straight reporting relationship between the rector and a government minister. And I don’t just mean an accountability relationship here – I mean the rector and every single … Posted in Administration, Funding and
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One of the fastest ways to get into an argument at a university is to suggest that there is some necessary trade-off between research and teaching. Really. The words will hardly be out of our mouth before someone comes charging at you, claiming the opposite. It’s not an empirical argument or anything, but an article of faith. Frankly, you wouldn’t want it to be an empirically testable position because if it was, someone might start asking some pretty difficult questions.…
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