MARCH 4, 2024 | ALEX USHER One Thought to Start Your Day Nova Scotia and the Politics of Listening I know, I know, you all want more on the ongoing omnishambles that is Ontario. You’re going to have to wait. What’s happening in Nova Scotia is probably more...
Universidades de EEUU y Canadá (2): Alex Usher
SAME BUT DIFFERENT (PART 2) NOVEMBER 3, 2021 | ALEX USHER Yesterday, I outlined the key similarities between the US and Canadian higher education systems. Today, let’s talk differences. The most obvious dissimilarity is some of the institutional forms. Religious...
Universidades canadienses y los pueblos nativos
View as Webpage Truth and Reconciliation Updates June 14th, 2021 - Alex Usher After writing about Ryerson the other day it occurred to me that I should take a look at what institutions have been committing to do with respect to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to...
Alex Usher: universidad canadiense en plan de cierre de programas
View as Webpage Laurentian Blues (8)-Causes, Fault, and Lessons April 15th, 2021 - Alex Usher Good morning. I had hoped to get you a bit more detail about what has happened at Laurentian in the last few days, but as usual there is less info available than there...
Alex Usher: Futuro de la universidad, las disciplinas y la docencia
View as Webpage Disciplines vs. Domains November 23rd, 2020 - Alex Usher (más abajo, ver traducción automática al castellano) One of my current projects has me thinking a lot about the university of the year 2040. And my conclusion right now is that universities,...
Microcredenciales: Discusión en Canadá x Alex Usher
View as Webpage Micro-credentials Need to be More than Gimmicks September 14 2020 - Alex Usher If you’re one of those unfortunate people who follows the federal lobbying scene, you’ll have noticed that all of the PSE stakeholder groups, one way or another, are...
Alex Usher: Pensando la reapertura académica (desde canadá)
View as Webpage Coronavirus (14)- The Re-opening Conundrum April 13th, 2020 - Alex Usher Most people want to know how the heck we get out of this mess. Not dates, necessarily, but the process. We have to see big declines in the number of new cases before we can start...
Consultas antes de definir políticas: Inglaterra y Australia
How to Make Policy February 12th 2020 - Alex Usher Take a ride with me. First stop, London, England. UK university funding is handled by an intermediate institution known as the Office for Students (OfS). The Government decides on the amount of money it wants to spend...
Mercado laboral de graduados en Canadá
View as Webpage New Data on Labour Market Outcomes February 13th 2020 - Alex Usher A couple of weeks ago, the Labour Market Information Council released a whack of material, produced by Ross Finnie and his Education Policy Research Initiative, on graduate labour...
Alex Ushe al comenzar el año / década
View as Webpage Welcome to the 2020s January 6th 2020 - Alex Usher Hi all. Hope you all had a restful set of holidays. At the start of a new decade, it is fashionable to look ahead at what will happen in one’s sector. Personally, I think that life is going to change...
El destino de los fondos públicos y lo que esperamos de las universidades
El destino de los fondos públicos y lo que esperamos de las universidades Por: Julio Labraña y Carla Fardella,...
Entrevista al Superintendente de Educación Superior
Entrevista al Superintendente Salazar en Diario Financiero Octubre 6, 2024 Este viernes (4 de octubre), la...
Reforma expansiva de la educación superior en Finlandia
New target set of 50% of young people going to university Dorothy Lepkowska 04 October 2024 Finland has announced the...
Aprender a conocer
Aprender a conocer José Joaquín Brunner, Domingo 06 de octubre de 2024 En 1981, Buckminster Fuller, un visionario...