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Bad Data on Sessionals
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) put out a paper on Tuesday entitled Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contract Academic Staff, which mostly presents data on a survey conducted by the association last year. While the intentions might have been good, the resulting data – which is already getting lots of
Canadian University Finances 2016-17 (Expenditures)
[the_ad id=”11745″] Good morning. Yesterday, I took a look at some recent trends in income at Canadian universities; today I want to take a look at what is happening on the expenditures side. Let’s start by looking at something really important, which is the difference between total expenditures and operational
Canadian University Finances 2016-17 (Income)
So, the 2016-2017 Financial Information of Universities and Colleges came out in July, and as usual I’ve got some highlights for you. This year, we’ll be doing this as a two-parter, one on income (today) and one on expenditure (tomorrow). For those of you looking for data on community college
André Picard Shills for the One Percent
You may have heard about New York University’s appalling plan to make tuition free at its medical school. This is, I am sure, a great gimmick to promote NYU among the upper classes of the Northeastern US. But it is a terrible use of money. The beneficiaries will come from BY FAR the most
A PSE Agenda for an Ontario Conservative Government
The new Ontario Government doesn’t seem to have a lot of ideas around post-secondary education. The only policy it has implemented to date is to give the go-ahead to plans drafted under the Liberals to get moving on a Francophone university in Toronto. This project, as I have said before, has always
Canada’s Affordability Success Story
Canadians are regularly bombarded with stories about “rising tuition” and “ever-mounting student debt”, the implication always being that the middle-class is being priced out of higher education, access to education is being threatened, etc. If these stories were true, it would indeed be worrying. The problem is, they are mostly
The State of Canadian Post-Secondary Education, 2018
Good morning. Today sees the publication of The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2018, our first annual review of Canadian post-secondary education institutions, students, faculty, and finances. You can download the whole thing here, you can wait for me to dribble the whole thing out in blog-sized chunks over
Back to School 2018
Morning all. Welcome back. Everyone emotionally prepared for the semester? No, me neither. So, it’s been an eventful summer. The Saudi spat was most unfortunate: several thousand lives disrupted and a short-term hit of about $140 million to Canadian universities and colleges (they’ll make it all up on next year’s intake). There’s some buzz around
Student Debt Not Increasing Whatsoever (Shocker)
Hi all. How’s the summer working out so far? I promised I would be back with a blog just as soon as the folks at the Canadian Undergraduate Survey Consortium (CUSC) published their triennial survey of graduating students, which is the most regular and arguably the best source of information
Go Have Fun
[the_ad id=”12740″] Summertime. Class is out. Time for relaxing and writing. I’ll be shutting down the blog for a few weeks. Back regularly as of August 27th, but may post once or twice over the summer in response to any big news or report releases. You can probably expect one
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