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Know Your Incoming Students (2022 edition)

Every three years the Canadian University Survey Consortium publishes a report on first-year students in Canada, and since their new report dropped a few weeks ago (available here), I thought it would be a good time to see what’s changed over the last few years. Quick recap on the CUSC survey: though the questions are mostly the same from year to year (or at least the ones I tend to examine are), the consortium membership changes from year-to-year, so comparisons

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September 7, 2022 No Comments

The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2022

Good morning.  Today marks the launch of the fifth edition of The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada (SPEC).  You can download it here.  It’s a bit different from previous editions: it includes a new section on research in Canada, as well as a new Appendix containing a set of information-sheets for each province (patterned on the “nutshell” series which y’all seemed to have enjoyed).  And I am sure it also includes a whole new batch of mistakes, too, which

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September 6, 2022 No Comments

Prince Edward Island in a Nutshell

Faithful readers will probably recall the “nutshell” series we produced last year (see here if you want to refresh your memory), in which we profiled 8 provinces’ post-secondary education systems before running out of time towards the end of the year, thereby disappointing some readers in Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.  However, fear not!  We’re going to finish up this month, starting out east with the Island. To begin with student numbers: Prince Edward Island is the only province in

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September 1, 2022 No Comments

Quebec in a Nutshell

All right, we’ve done seven of these and it’s time to look at Canada’s outlier province.  You know, the one where every time you try to explain Canada to someone in another country and you have to say “of course, it’s usually different in Quebec.” Let’s start with student numbers.  Quebec is, relatively speaking, the least university-based system in the country.  Just under 45% of all postsecondary students in the province are enrolled in CEGEPs, and as recently as 2001-02 university

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June 7, 2022 No Comments

Newfoundland and Labrador in a Nutshell

Morning folks.  Today we’re going to look at the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. As I demonstrated here, it is a lot like Alberta in its hydro-carbon related boom-and-bust funding cycles, but quite unlike it in its demographics and student numbers. Let’s start with student numbers.  Newfoundland and Labrador faced adverse demographics for post-secondary education for decades now, so simply keeping numbers steady is a bit of a triumph.  When the government reduced and then froze tuition in 2000, the province’s

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June 2, 2022 No Comments

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