Students Without Borders
AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley presented a commentary titled, "Students Without Border, Universities Without Illusions: Why international mobility will cause a quality revolution in our universities." at the annual conference of the National Association of University Chairs and Secretaries (NAUBCS)
The Prosperity Challenge: Senate seeks AIMS views on building regional and national productivity
AIMS used its research in a number of fields to prepare a presentation on productivity and competitiveness at the request of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce. Director of Research Services, Bruce Winchester, said Ottawa has to take steps to reform equalization, employment insurance and regional development programmes.
The Beacon, May 12, 2005
In this edition of The Beacon, read how AIMS has prompted a political debate on Equalization in Saskatchewan; learn what universities need to do to stay relevent; hear AIMS message to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce; and consider how Newfoundland is throwing away millions of dollars over the long term to gain thousands of jobs in the short term.
Contraindicated: Canada can’t solve US pharmaceutical woes.
The US Congress is once again considering authorization of the re-importation of pharmaceuticals from Canada. As AIMS Fellow in Health Care Economics Brian Ferguson explains in a commentary in the National Post, such a solution to the US pharmaceutical woes is a dream cop-out for politicians.
Students Without Borders, Universities Without Illusions
They may not have liked what they heard, but the chairs of universities certainly sat up and listened. In one of the keynote addresses to the annual conference of National University Board Chairs and Secretaries (NAUBCS), AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley provided insight to the universities of the future. He warned the guardians of Canada’s post-secondary education that they need to think outside the sacred, but physical, halls of academia.
Short-term Job Gains will cost Newfoundlanders millions of dollars
AIMS Research Fellow Peter Fenwick says Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is making a big mistake on offshore development. Fenwick says Williams is pushing for short-term jobs and economic activity, instead of waiting for the bigger royalty cheque when the project starts production.
Equalization in Saskatchewan
AIMS Talk Triggers Debate.
Alice in Borderland
The idea that Americans should be able to buy their prescription drugs in Canada, either in person or, more importantly, over the Internet, has been gaining favour with US politicians for some months now. It’s to the point where a number of states have either passed, or are considering passing, legislation that they believe will make this kind of cross-border shopping legal. This commentary explains why, if re-importation ever becomes law in the US, American prices will not fall, while in Canada we will either find drug prices rising to US levels, or supplies being restricted and shortages developing.
The Beacon, May 5, 2005
In this special edition of The Beacon, AIMS invites you to join in its 10th anniversary celebrations with "The Celtic Tiger Dinner" in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 31st. Read more about the AIMS' celebrations; learn more about the guest speaker; and review AIMS' book "The Road to Growth", which first identified in Canada the Irish economic turn-around which earned Ireland the title the Celtic Tiger.
A Brave New World. Universities need to prepare for a global market.
Universities need to prepare for a brave new world, where students are international and the post-secondary education market is global. In this commentary, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley warns that ignoring the signs will make today's brick and mortar institutions irrelevent.