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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

Cross-National Student Loan Repayment Comparisons

As I mentioned yesterday,  there was a big change in US student loan policy last week, namely with respect to income-based repayment.  As I see it, the new rules make it one of the least onerous places in the world in which to repay student loans, by some standards.  But before I substantiate this claim, I need to discuss how student loan repayments work around the world. Trying to compare loan burdens across national borders can be tricky because the

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August 31, 2022 1 Comment

US Debt Cancellation – What Just Happened?

So, the big news last week in world higher education was the Biden administration finally cancelling some student debt and – in theory, who knows? – resuming student loan repayments in December of this year (they were suspended in the Spring of 2020 in the chaos of early COVID.) Let’s break down Wednesday’s announcement. The government forgave the following debt: Up to $20,000 of Department of Education debt for borrowers who apply and meet the following three criteria: have outstanding

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August 30, 2022 No Comments

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