Higher Education in Canada

What's New

The April issue of Higher Education Quarterly includes a paper entitled "Academic Work in Canada: Perspections of Early Career Faculty" by Glen Jones, Julian Weinrib, Amy Metcalfe, Don Fisher, Kjell Rubeson and Iain Snee. Related papers on academic work can be found on the research and resources section of this website.

Glen Jones and Bryan Gopaul's paper "Doctoral Education and the Global University: Student Mobility, Hierarchy and Government Policy" has just been published in a book (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) entitled The Global University: Past, Present and Future Perspectives edited by Adam Nelson and Ian Wei. 

Glen Jones and Roopa Desai Trilokekar (York University) made a presentation at the Comparative and International Education Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico (April 22-27, 2012). The presentation focused on their study of the contextual factors leading to the Government of Canada's decision to create this nation's first strategy for international education. The slides from their presentation can be found here.

Glen's book "Creating Knowledge, Strengthening Nations: The Changing Role of Higher Education" (co-edited with Patricia McCarney and Michael Skolnik) has just been released in softcover at a quite reasonable price. The book was originally released by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. 

Summary findings of an international comparison of academic salaries in 28 countries were released on March 22nd. The project, led by Philip Altbach at Boston College, concludes that average faculty salaries in Canada are the highest compared with the public universities in other countries included in this project. Detailed information on the project can be found on the project website. The Canadian  component of the student was conducted by Glen Jones and Julian Weinrib, and their paper, entitled "The Organization of Academic Work and Faculty Remuneration at Canadian Universities," will be published in a major volume (Routledge, 2012) entitled Paying the Professoriate, edited by Philip Altbach, Maria Yudkivish, Liz Reisberg, Ivan Pacheco and Gregory Androushchak.   

Glen presented a paper at a conference entitled "Policy Formation in Post-secondary Education: Issues and Prospects in Turbulent Times" sponsored by the Faculty of Education at York University on March 15-17 at the Novotel Toronto North York. A draft of the paper, entitled "Lineation and Lobbying: Policy Networks and Higher Education Policy in Ontario"  can be downloaded here.

Glen Jones and Julian Weinrib contributed a chapter on "Globalization and Higher Education in Canada" to the new Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education edited by Roger King, Simon Marginson and Rajani Naidoo. 

Coming Up

The OECD will be releasing their Economic Survey of Canada in mid-June.  Join OECD authors and OISE scholars to discuss recommendations for strengthening post-secondary education and innovation in Canada. Thursday, June 14  9:30-11:00 am.  OISE Library. Click here for more information

Glen Jones, Bryan Gopaul and Julian Weinrib have organized two sessions on the Changing Academic Profession in Canada for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Waterloo in May. A preliminary program for the conference has just been posted.

Glen's newest book,Universities and Regional Development, co-edited with Romulo Pinheiro and Paul Benneworth, is scheduled for publication by Routledge in June, 2012. Romulo, who was the lead editor on the project, discussed the book in a recent blog on the HEDDA site.