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Puzzles in the youth labour market
A couple of days ago, after looking at employment patterns among recent graduate using Ontario graduate survey data, I promised a look at broader youth labour market data. I now wish I hadn’t promised that because Statistics Canada’s CANSIM database is an ungodly mess and has got significantly worse since
American Higher Education Under Trump
Tomorrow, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States (actually, the 44th person to be President: Grover Cleveland’s two non-consecutive terms screw up the count). What does this mean for higher education? First off, let’s recollect that where higher education is concerned, the US,
More Bleak Data, But This Time on Colleges
Everyone seems to be enjoying data on graduate outcomes, so I thought I’d keep the party going by looking at similar data from Ontario colleges. But first, some of you have written to me suggesting I should throw some caveats on what’s been covered so far. So let me get
Another Lens on Bleak Graduate Income Data
So, yesterday we looked at Ontario university graduate employment data (link to: previous). Today I want to zero in a little bit on what’s happening by field of study. (I can hear two objections popping up already. First; “why just Ontario”? Answer: while Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia and the Maritimes
Ever-bleaker Graduate Employment Data?
So just before I quit blogging in December, the Council of Ontario Universities released its annual survey of graduate outcomes, this time of the class of 2013. The release contained the usual platitudes: “future is bright”, “vast majority getting well-paying jobs”, etc etc. And I suppose if one looks at
Restore the NGS!
One of the best things that Statistics Canada ever did in the higher education field was the National Graduates’ Survey (NGS). OK, it wasn’t entirely Statscan – NGS has never been a core product funded from the Statscan budget but rather funded periodically by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)
Post-Brexit Options
One highly amusing by-product of the frantic Canada-EU-Walloon trade negotiation finale last fall was watching the UK government suddenly realize that negotiating agreements with a 27-country trade bloc is actually really difficult and that this Brexit thing is almost certainly not going to end well. Which of course has some
Admissions policies: Marks-Based, Broad-Based, or Random?
Though here in egalitarian Canada we don’t like to talk about it much, the fact of the matter is that universities are selective. More people want to enter them than there are places available. The more prestigious the institution, the greater the imbalance between demand and supply of places, thus
The Politicization of University Accounting
Back in the fall, the Canadian Alliance of University Teachers (CAUT) published an interesting little guidebook called CAUT’s Guide to Analyzing University & College Financial Statements, written by Cameron and Janet Morrill, two profs at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business. Stripped to its essentials, it purports to
Welcome 2017
Sometimes New Year’s messages write themselves. I mean, it can’t be as bad as last year, right? The first half of this year is going to be dominated by two issues: Science and Skills. This month, former University of Toronto President David Naylor will release his review of the Government
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