Opinion
Alex Usher Needs to Consider Taxation
In my previous Academic Matters blog post, I argued that there are five advantages to universal access to financial assistance for post-secondary […]
READ MOREResponding to Nick Falvo on tuition fees
Recently, on my daily blog, I wrote an analysis (link to: http://higheredstrategy.com/whos-progressive/) of distributional effects of tuition reductions versus those of targeted […]
READ MOREAlex Usher is Wrong on Tuition Fees
One of Canada’s best-known post-secondary education pundits, Alex Usher, recently wrote a blog post suggesting that Canada’s status quo system of high […]
READ MOREHEQCO distorts faculty teaching loads: News media play along
In March, 2014, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), published a study purporting to show that Ontario professors only teach […]
READ MORELiberal arts lead to good employment outcomes…just don’t tell the policymakers
Last week, the AAC&U released the report How Liberal Arts and Science Majors Fare in Employment (for coverage, check out Inside Higher […]
READ MOREInto the program prioritization debate
Last week, we published an article by Leo Groarke and Beverley Hamilton on program prioritization. For the uninitiated, program prioritization is a […]
READ MOREWe Teach Ontario launches student video contest
We Teach Ontario, OCUFA’s campaign highlighting the important connection between teaching and research, has launched a student video contest. The contest offers […]
READ MOREBuilding trust through funding disclosure
In yesterday’s Worldviews panel about think tanks and university research, Adrian Monck emphasized the importance of knowing the funding sources of a […]
READ MORESelf-censoring away from the public sphere
In recent weeks, Academic Matters has devoted some of its attention to the importance of academics’ participation in public debate. Two panels […]
READ MOREWhere have all the academics gone?
Writing in today’s Ottawa Citizen, Lawrence Martin observes that Canada’s academic are “missing in action”. That is, almost totally silent on the […]
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