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Student-Teacher Ratios

This is a full-on data nerd blog on faculty numbers and ratios.  Normally, we would put this stuff in The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, but StatsCan took its sweet time delivering me the data and I missed the publication of the data.  But hey, better late than never, so let’s dive in. Before we get to the numbers, some methodological notes (I told you this was for nerds).  Annoyingly, StatsCan counts teachers by “Principal Subject Taught”, which is

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October 3, 2023 5 Comments

Manitoba Manifesto Analysis 2023

Ok folks, you know the drill.  An election means a manifesto analysis, and with the Manitoba election only 24 hours away, I’m overdue on this one. Manitoba is a 2-and-a-half party system.  Since 1969, the NDP and Progressive Conservatives have each had three periods in power (NDP for 30 years, Tories for 24), so these are the two platforms to watch. The Liberals have held seats in the legislature for all but 4 of those years, but only once managed

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October 2, 2023 No Comments

Higher Education in India

Hi everyone. I’m Alex Usher and this is The World of Higher Education podcast. It’s something of a cliché to think of India as a “sleeping giant” when it comes to higher education. But in some ways the term fits. India is capable of truly impressive feats of applied science and Engineering – last month’s Chandrayaan-3 moon landing, put together by the Indian Space Research Organization on an absolute pittance is perhaps the example that comes to mind most readily.

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September 28, 2023 3 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada, Part 2

Yesterday, we looked at what and where international students studied in Canada. Today, I want to zero in a bit on where international students are from. Let’s start with the issue of country of origin.  Care is required because the data gets a bit tricky: there are something like 135,000 students in Canada who are of dual origin. They are Canadian students, but they also have citizenship in another country.  In this post I will focus on the nation or

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September 27, 2023 2 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, I realized that I’ve never really written a good blog on where and what international students study in Canada.  Think of today’s blog as my way of making amends.  (Note: this is Statscan enrolment data and so refers to enrolments in the fall of 2020, roughly 36 months ago.  Assume that things have changed somewhat since then). Let’s start with the question of what international students study and how this has changed over time.   Figure 1

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September 26, 2023 3 Comments

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