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Update on University Finances

Last week, I wrote about college finances. Today I thought I would spend some time updating some of the more interesting graphs I’ve done over the past few years with respect to university finances.  I do quite a lot on university finances in HESA’s annual State of Post-Secondary Education, but over the years I have also done some slightly more bespoke takes that don’t make it into SPEC. And so, herewith, my 2024 update on those numbers. In Figure 1,

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January 31, 2024 No Comments

How bad is it going to get in Ontario? Really Bad.

Last Friday, the Ontario government issued a media release outlining what it was going to do with respect to international students in the wake of the Government of Canada’s Monday announcement on study permits and work visas. I reproduce it substantially intact below because it is so objectively terrible. To protect the integrity of postsecondary education and promote employment in critical sectors like health care and the skilled trades, the government’s measures will include the following: Colleges and Universities Career

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January 30, 2024 7 Comments

Stratégie a la Québecoise

Located only a few hundred kilometers away from one another along the St. Lawrence, l’Université Laval and l’Université de Montréal are the province’s two biggest and most research-intensive French-language institutions. Both released new strategic plans in the past year or two. Université de Montréal’s plan runs from 2022-2032 and Université de Laval’s was released this past fall and runs from 2023-2028. Bound to some extent by similar political, economic, and social conditions, you might expect the two institutions to have similar types of styles and objectives. You

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January 29, 2024 1 Comment

The Failed Fees Free Policy in New Zealand

New Zealand has always been a place unafraid to experiment in higher education. That’s partially because change is often easier to make in small countries (it’s easier to get everyone in a room), but also because the country itself has found innovation key to success. One of the biggest recent changes was the introduction of free first year for university students, something that was introduced by Jacinda Ardern, something we discussed with a previous guest, Dave Guerin, about a year

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January 25, 2024 1 Comment

What Comes Next

Many of you have asked me over the past couple of days regarding the potential impact of Monday’s announcement on study permits and post-graduate work visas. Nationally, I can only give you one certainty: because Master’s programs—all Master’s programs—lie outside the cap, everyone and their dog is going to try to load up on students taking expensive 8 month Master’s programs. Including private institutions—the model here will be Northeastern university, with its campuses in Vancouver and Toronto (quite near HESA

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January 24, 2024 2 Comments

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