University of Toronto Vice-President and Provost, Professor Cheryl Regehr, has announced Professor Glen A. Jones, as the 10th head of the University’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) for a five-year term, beginning July 1, 2016. For the complete story please use the following link: http://goo.gl/eZhAUF
CIHE’s Glen Jones co-hosts academic conference in Israel
May 23, 2016 | Uncategorised
Professor Glen Jones from CIHE and Professor Gili Drori, Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are co-hosting an academic conference on Internationalization, Globalization and the Governance of Academe at the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on May 15-17, 2016. Other Canadian participants include Diane Barbaric (Ph.D.…Read More
What to expect from the British white paper on higher education
May 23, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Emma Sabzalieva Universities in the UK have long learned to live with what the late, great British professor of higher education and ideas David Watson called in 2012 “flux and contingency”, “national policy confusion” and the “pressures of a hyper-active political context”. All of these features of the British context have become even more…Read More
College university partnerships
May 20, 2016 | CIHE Events
By Gavin Moodie Partnerships between Ontario colleges and universities have become increasingly important recently for at least two reasons. Partnerships are encouraged generally in Canada, USA, Europe and elsewhere to transcend organizational boundaries, foster synergies and stimulate change. So universities are enjoined to partner with employers to integrate education and work, with industry to foster…Read More
20 in 25: Setting a Target for the Proportion of Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded by Colleges
May 19, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Michael Skolnik In 2012, the proportion of Canada’s adult population that had completed some type of tertiary education program was the highest of any OECD member country. While the OECD comparisons are at the national level, Ontario’s patterns of educational attainment are similar to the patterns for Canada, being slightly higher on some indices…Read More
Wandering in West China
May 16, 2016 | International Dialogue
By Ruth Hayhoe After four days in Chongqing, I moved on to Lanzhou, the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. OISE had a CIDA supported partnership with Lanzhou’s Northwest Normal University from 1989 to 2001 in which some of China’s first doctoral students in education after the disastrous Cultural Revolution were…Read More
Media mentions CIHE Director Creso Sa’s research
May 12, 2016 | Uncategorised
The Toronto Sun recently published an article highlighting Creso Sa’s research into the increased growth of entrepreneurship programs within Ontario postsecondary institutions. Creso Sa’s recently published book, The Entrepreneurship Movement and the University, as well as one of his former HEQCO reports, were both cited in the news article. For a link to the news…Read More
A Chinese alternative to the Global Research University
May 10, 2016 | International Dialogue
By Ruth Hayhoe Southwest University in Chongqing, a city of 30 million in West China, celebrated a history of 110 years on April 17 and 18. It has been a major normal university for the Southwest region since 1952 but ten years ago it was allowed to merge with its neighbouring agricultural university and drop…Read More
Australia’s university policy paralysis
May 5, 2016 | Policy Debate
By Gavin Moodie Australian university-type education has periods of relatively stability and increasing fears of stagnation interrupted about every two decades by ambitious and radical change.
OISE Higher Ed Pioneer Cicely Watson’s Legacy Lives on
May 5, 2016 | Uncategorised
Professor Emerita Cicely Watson passed away last December, but her legacy lives on. One of the founding members of OISE, she did influential work on education reform and the planning of higher education systems. Professor Watson played a leading role in the creation of Ontario’s system of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology. Her outstanding…Read More