…discuss a new report on an upcoming funding formula for universities – performance-based funding. This report, and the proposed funding approach detailed in it, has been some time coming. In…
READ MOREIt is positively eerie for a baby boomer like me to hear talk of a possible “Depression” in Canada. Having come of age in exceedingly prosperous times and conditioned to…
READ MORE…only by the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Over half (53%) of international students at Canadian institutions come from Asia, with the largest proportions of students coming from…
READ MORE…when evidence such as low completion rates, long completion times, and the difficult academic labour market are marshaled to comment on the efficacy of doctoral study. The conventions and norms…
READ MORE…of international experts, was to improve communication with university leaders in a position to champion SSHRC research. Frankly, I expected the usual platitudes and incomprehension. Instead I found, on the…
READ MORE…rigid training under the guidance of a committee comprising five highly professional and competent scholars, who were also culturally sensitive and caring. For research methodology alone, I took six courses,…
READ MORE…those he would lead. Politicians rarely get to implement their own ideas in any straightforward way. More commonly, they end up brokering compromises among different factions of their supporters, ending…
READ MORE…truths. The disconnect between the expertise of the academy and the common sense of broader society has always been a challenge for universities. In some ways, bridging this divide defines…
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