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Provincial Budgets 2022

All ten provinces have now issued their budgets, so it’s time for our annual look at how governments across the country are choosing to invest (or not) in higher education.   Just a quick reminder about how I do this.  What I measure is budget commitments – that is, what governments say they are going to spend year over year.  This is not quite the same thing as what they actually spend – there are always small differences between what governments

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May 11, 2022 No Comments

Alberta in a Nutshell

A couple of weeks ago, I told you I’d be doing statistical portraits of various provinces over the next few weeks.  I started with Nova Scotia (where I spent some great days at the CICan national conference and seeing folks at various Halifax universities, and incidentally, congratulations to Joël Dickinson on her new appointment as President at Mount Saint Vincent University), and then asked for some advice about which province to do next.  The response was overwhelming: you wanted to

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May 10, 2022 No Comments

Nova Scotia in a Nutshell

As you may know, the HESA Towers team spends part of every summer compiling The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, which tracks national trends in higher education.  But what we don’t often do is go a level below that, to look in depth at what’s happening in individual provinces and how these developments compare to what is going on in other parts of the country.   So, for the next few weeks, we are presenting a statistical portrait of what

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April 21, 2022 No Comments

New Graduate Outcomes Data

I haven’t written about graduate labour market outcomes recently, and the good folks at the Council of Ontario Universities just published some new data on the class of 2018, so today seems like the day to come back to this topic. The main reason to use Ontario data to do this is because a) it’s available, b) it provides a useful amount of breakdown by discipline and c) it has a nice long time series.  The Statistics Canada Education and

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April 14, 2022 No Comments

Budget 2022

Hi all.  Our budget commentary is now up and available here. This was a difficult budget to evaluate.  By no stretch of the imagination can it be called an “education budget,” and some of it seems to have been thrown together; yet at the same time some of the changes seem quite profound. First, it must be said that there are areas where the Budget is most notable for what it did not do.  It did not renew the Business Higher Education

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April 8, 2022 No Comments

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