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Higher Education. All of it. All around the world. Also: snark, sumo, Winnipeg Jets triumphalism and bitching about Toronto FC. I blog here: https://higheredstrategy.com/blog/ I podcast here: https://worlded.transistor.fm/
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Flames.

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TEQSA is dealing with a workload backlog - almost 1/4 of all providers have their re-registration currently 'pending' ie not completed on time. The University of Melbourne, Australia's highest ranked uni, has been waiting 12 months to see if it meets the Standards www.teqsa.gov.au/provider/uni...

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International students in Canada by sector, 1992-93 to 2023-24.

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Playing for keeps. (Official Harvard alumni mag.)

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No, but there's one scene you'll never forget.

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Science enrolments in Canadian universities are up 45% over the past decade. Also:

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UBC hires top U.S. doctor to lead faculty of medicine. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, a renowned clinician‑scientist and global health leader, comes from Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, by Denise Ryan vancouversun.com/news/ubc-hir... via @vancouversun.bsky.social @ubcmedicine.bsky.social #MedEd

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WTF

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Hm. Dimestore Pat Buchanan's numbers *fell* when Trump arrived/Trudeau left, *rose* during the election, and then *collapsed* after the election (a period in which he has been notably quiet). What should we conclude from this? That his popularity goes up the more he is in the spotlight?

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In case you're inclined to harrumph about too many young people in formal classroom education... registered apprentices in 1999: 186K In 2023: 459K

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“New York City’s congestion pricing toll has cut Manhattan traffic delays by 25% and reduced gridlock in nearby New Jersey counties by as much as 14%, undercutting fears the policy would worsen traffic outside the city, a new report from the Regional Plan Association shows.” Again, it’s working.

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Headcount enrolment (FT + PT) in Canadian universities and colleges in 1999-2000: 1.34M Estimated headcount enrolment for 2023-24: 2.32M Not bad...

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I am reading an annoying book on inequality in HE. Allegedly "built around" 40 (!) grad student interviews, it's really just a long appeal to Bourdieu/CRT authority decorated with a few quotes which don't add much. The argument is not wrong, necessarily. But is this really scholarship?

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in which the president of the united states comes to understand that forging peace in the middle east is actually quite hard

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If only he had Bibi's phone number...

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This is quite something.

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RE: NYC mayoral - is the betting that Cuomo runs as an independent if he loses the primary or no?

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Jesse Ventura's best moment as governor was “Why? I mean, we won" when VA asked for it back

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prm.ua/en/a-worryin...

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Leon Botstein became President of Bard when he was 28??

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Just catching up on this: big student protests in Cuba over an unexpectedly sharp rise in internet connection fees by the state telecoms firm.

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This article suggests Albania has lost nearly half of its population in the past 30 years

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Corruption scandal in Kenyan HE over something called (bizarrely) the Finland and Canada Overseas Education Program.

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This...is odd. You don't see this often in countries with growing populations and growing economies.

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Interesting piece

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AFAICT this is not getting any play in Canada or even Alberta but it was ALL OVER the media in India this weekend.

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My feelings re: 2019, as an Expos fan, were, in order: "fuck the Nationals, fuck DC and fuck MLB"

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OpenAI has removed all references to acquiring Jony Ive’s company IO from its site because they’ve been sued by a IYO, a Google X spinout that is building an AI powered wearable device. The company claims it shared confidential product details with Ive & Altman who are now violating its trademarks

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