HESA

Higher Education Strategy Associates

Publications

  • 2013 Budget Commentary
  • Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized University Rankings 2012
  • Making the Most of It: Canadian Student Employment in Summer 2012
  • Making Research Count: Analyzing Canadian Academic Publishing Cultures 2012-Bibliometrics-and-Publication-Culture-HESA.pdf
  • Jobs Don’t Come to Those Who Wait: the Search for Student Summer Employment in Canada summer_employment_2012.pdf

One Thought Blog

  • A Dreadful Argument About Tuition Fees

    I see that the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has just released a new paper by Hugh MacKenzie called The Impact of Taxation on the Higher Education Debates. It’s worth a read because it sets out the argument against higher … Read More

  • Summer Break

    Hi all.

    It’s time for me to step back from the blogging for a few weeks.  As of Monday, we’ll be switching to a “One Thought to Start Your Week” until the middle of August; that will let me catch … Read More

  • What if Higher Education Subsidies Were Transparent?

     An interesting little exercise in budget analysis:

    There are just under 5600 humanities professors at Canadian universities, and 7600 in the social sciences (excluding law, which is another 600 or so).  On average, these people make about $108,000/year (slightly higher … Read More