When Science Outruns Business
I have a few projects where I keep seeing the same problem again and again. And it’s a real poser because it’s a problem that the literature on knowledge and economic development mostly passes over....
View ArticleThe Decline of the Master’s Degree
The Master’s degree has a long and complicated history – one that looks very different depending on the part of the world you are from. Briefly: it is either a traditional first degree (e.g. central...
View ArticleFailing to Look Outward
A few years ago, whilst working in an Eastern European country which shall remain nameless, I went to visit the school’s premier school of agriculture to ask them some questions about how their...
View ArticleMore on Measuring Social Mobility
There have been some interesting recent developments with respect to measuring the contribution that universities make to social mobility. Not in Canada of course – that would require caring about...
View ArticleCanada: Not Quite as Good as It Looks in OECD Comparisons
On Monday, Statscan put out a “Portrait of Youth and Education in Canada,” which includes the following graph accompanied by a note to the effect that Canada has one of the highest post-secondary...
View ArticleOverqualification
Sorry for the late blog appearance: I’ve been bouncing around Alberta and British Columbia for work and play this week (#ICETECA, baby) and it’s tough to write on these terrible little short-haul...
View ArticleMeasuring Quality as if Quality Mattered
Last week, a colleague on Twitter (Hi, Brendan!) asked – possibly rhetorically – whether it was possible to measure quality in higher education. I took the bait and thought I would formulate my...
View ArticleAnticipating Market Demand
A few days ago, someone asked me how institutions, in practice, are supposed to go about trying to anticipate market demand when coming up with new courses. Since this is something we at HESA Towers...
View ArticleHow Europe Measures Equity in Admissions
When doing international comparative work in higher education, you’ll realise that the difficulty in comparing systems goes far beyond differences in system architecture and inconsistencies in data....
View ArticleNew Graduate Outcomes Data
I haven’t written about graduate labour market outcomes recently, and the good folks at the Council of Ontario Universities just published some new data on the class of 2018, so today seems like the...
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