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Itsnotacademic Blog

A periodic compendium of thoughts, provocative ideas, kudos and brickbats from HEQCO President and CEO Harvey Weingarten.

Reinventing Terry Gitersos: Is it back to class?

Published: 24/04/2012 12:00 PM

Entering my sixth month of post-PhD unemployment, I can state pretty emphatically that employers aren’t buying the package that I am attempting to sell. This is the crux of the problem that I have been grappling with for months now: How can ...[Read more]

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Harvey Weingarten: Governments and policy: A tribute to experiential learning

Published: 29/03/2012 11:49 AM

I attended two conferences recently to speak on the issue of how governments form higher education policy and how postsecondary institutions can behave to have greater influence over the policies governments adopt and the decisions they make.Many ...[Read more]

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What Terry Gitersos wishes he’d known before he became Dr. Gitersos

Published: 01/03/2012 7:00 AM

I was raised in a family that prioritized education. My parents stressed the value and importance of both formal and informal learning from when I was in diapers, and instilled in me the notion that a university education was the key to my f ...[Read more]

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Fiona Deller: Will Ontario keep apace or set the pace?

Published: 08/02/2012 4:26 PM

Some call it disruptive, some call it welcome but change is afoot in higher education. From rising enrolments to economic constraints, from the promise of technology to the pressures of international competition, the game is changing and the chall ...[Read more]

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Tooting Our Own Horn

Published: 02/02/2012 12:28 PM

HEQCO is an organization built on the principles of inquiry, performance assessment, evidence and research. So, it seemed only appropriate that we subject our own performance to a critical review and rigorous evaluation by an informed outsider. ...[Read more]

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