Quite a story from @skynews this evening: Former PM Boris Johnson - who introduced the requirement for voter ID - was turned away from his polling station today after forgetting his ID.

news.sky.com/story/politics…

Many people have asked me over the years to do some kind of 'drunk higher education' podcast. VERY unlikely I would ever do this but if I ever did I would would want to do it with Brendan Cantwell.

#Podcast | This week, on the World of Higher Education Podcast, our president Alex Usher is joined by Brendan Cantwell, Professor HALE at MSU, to talk about culture wars in American higher education. Tune in to hear more! #HigherEd

worlded.transistor.fm/episodes/2-28-…

Look, the correct spelling is Wakko.

Failure to achieve Vision 2030 goals could prompt serious questions about the vast economic cost, particularly at a time when the cost of living in the Kingdom is increasing

newarab.com/analysis/can-s…

The higher education situation in Europe is more similar to Canada than you might think. In particular, the division of academia between insiders and outsiders seems remarkably universal.
higheredstrategy.com/europe-canada-…

ICYMI: Comparing Canadian universities using bibliometric data. Some interesting patterns here, and a few institutions really achieving some pretty phenomenal things (take a bow, Toronto Metropolitan University)
higheredstrategy.com/research-outco…

Re: the argument that colonialism gave Native people 'keys to the modern world'-a thought experiment: Aliens arrive on Earth, promise to advance material culture 500 years. In exchange 90% of you will die and the rest will be subject to the Aliens for 200 years. Do you do it?

2023 higher ed international student fee revenue a nominal $ all-time high - but still down on 2019 peak in real terms. abs.gov.au/statistics/eco…

The giant Ōzeki Ōuchiyama (6’8”) faces off against Tochinishiki, who would become an almost oppressively dominant Yokozuna by the end of the 1950s.
Also featuring: a bearded gyoji and the wonders of radio-centric play-by-play.

It is amazing that most university administrations — with some notable exceptions as below — have forgotten the lessons of 1968 which mostly amount to “ignore it and it’ll go away”

What the folks trying to design a National School Lunch program can learn from the era of SUFA federalism and the creation of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation (with added joeyberger content).
higheredstrategy.com/national-progr…

Brilliant. I had never considered JK Simmons as Homer, but well done.

My newest paper is 'Virtual Town and Gown: The Athabasca University Crisis and the Conflict of Institutional Logics'. It is my attempt to analyze a unique conflict in Canadian higher education (and the paper is open access).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/he…

Pottering around the House of Commons website at 530AM on a Sunday, as one does, and came across a really interesting committee presentation at which I was apparently a witness (I have not the foggiest memory of making this appearance). ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…

Fascinating observation on the limited interplay between poverty-reduction measures and inequality from Marcelo Medeiros's new book *Os ricos e os pobres: o Brasil e a desigualdade* amazon.com/ricos-pobres-B…

A brief history of the GOP.

1952: Nixon: “We did get a gift…a little cocker spaniel…black and white spotted. Our little girl named it Checkers. The kids love the dog and I want to say right now, regardless of what they say, we're gonna keep it.”

2024: Noem: I shot the dog.

Si las becas universales se cubrieran exclusivamente con dineros frescos que se agregan al presupuesto existente, el programa al menos no afectaría a otros programas educativos. Pero la evidencia reciente nos dice que eso no sucede.
educacion.nexos.com.mx/beca-universal…

People think I am exaggerating or simplifying this but I am not. Bruno and Boots misappropriate $15,000 from a charitable trust account to invest in a junior mining company because their friend’s dad has non-market information indicating it has struck a rich vein of silver.

Had forgotten the extent to which Brussels is a waffle & chocolate- based economy.