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Category: Canada

Inter-provincial Student Mobility

We talk a lot about international student mobility in Canada.  But what about inter-provincial student mobility?  Let’s go find out. In 2018-19, the last year for which data is available, the proportion of Canadian undergraduates who were studying in another province was about 8.4%.  As Figure 1 shows, this proportion has been increasing very slowly for the last thirty years (the precipitous drop in 1996-97 has to do with Quebec universities not reporting data in that year, something which I am pretty

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August 31, 2021 3 Comments

Back With a Jab

Morning all.  Ready to go?  No, me neither.  But the show must go on. It’s going to be a busy few weeks.  Our annual State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada comes out on Thursday.  We’ve got an election on September 20th, which may have some pretty significant consequences for post-secondary education (the childcare accords of the last few months are hugely consequential for higher education in a way that has not properly been appreciated, and I’ll be writing on that subject later

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August 30, 2021 1 Comment

Nova Scotia Manifesto Analysis (Summer Edition)

Morning all.  Hope you are having a good summer.  Just returning briefly to the blog because Nova Scotia goes to the polls today, and in the ancient, decade-long tradition of this blog (ten years ago last week, the blog debuted with this piece to a beta audience of about 100) I gotta do a manifesto analysis.  So, here goes. The NDP manifesto commitments on PSE are disappointingly thin.  The entirety of their platform is i) “(work) towards eliminating tuition fees, beginning with tuition fees

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August 17, 2021 No Comments

Missions and Moonshots

There is a crowd of policy entrepreneurs in Canada – mostly but not entirely Liberal, mostly but not entirely based in Ottawa – who have really cottoned on to the whole notion of innovation.  Like many of us who have despaired over successive governments’ lack of cluefulness on this issue, they are dissatisfied with the status quo.  Unfortunately, these people are currently marching with wholly unjustified confidence towards policies that are largely buzzword-driven. It’s not just this ludicrous notion of

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June 15, 2021 1 Comment

Back to 2038

Judging by the feedback on yesterday’s blog, y’all are pretty interested in demography (One Thought followers are the best followers. How great is it that my most popular blogs are about demography?).   So, I thought I would follow up on the three biggest threads of questions and commentary which have flooded my inbox and blog comments over the last 24 hours. First: where did I get the data?  Well, that one’s easy.  Statistics Canada does projections every few years,

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June 9, 2021 1 Comment
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