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Notes on the Finances of China’s Top Universities
One of my distractions over the past summer has been to learn more about Chinese universities. And, fortunately, this is becoming a lot easier as Chinese universities are starting to put more of their data online. Today, I just want to take you through a bit of a tour of
Some Curious Data From OECD Education at a Glance 2017
The OECD put out its annual Education at a Glance publication yesterday. No huge surprises except for the fact that they appear to have killed one of the most-used tables in the whole book (A.1.2, which compared tertiary attainment rates for 25-34 year olds by type of tertiary program – i.e. college
NDP Leadership Race Notes
So the deadline to sign up for the federal NDP leadership passed a couple of weeks ago, and the first deadline for the mail-in ballots is next Monday. So what to make of the four candidates and their views on post-secondary education? Based on their platforms and a series of responses
The Growing Importance of Fee Income
I made a little remark last week to the effect that on present trends, student fees would pass provincial funding as a source of revenue for universities by 2020-2021 and combined fed-prov government funding by 2025. Based on my twitter feed, that seems to have got people quite excited. But I should
Data on Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault in Higher Ed-an Australian Experiment
Earlier this year, I raged a bit at a project that the Ontario government had launched: namely, an attempt to survey every single student in Ontario about sexual assault in a way that – it seemed to me – likely to be (mis)used for constructing a league table on which institutions had
Tuition Fees in Canada, 2017-18
So, yesterday was the annual tuition fee data dump from Statscan. Probably worth it to go over the data just a bit to see what the story is. The data everyone likes to focus on is the “average undergraduate tuition fee by province”. This year, it looks like this (note
Canadian University Finance Statistics (2015-16 Edition)
The 2015-16 version of Financial Information of Universities and Colleges Survey (which, confusingly, doesn’t include community colleges) was released over the summer. As in previous years I’m going to do a little summary of what it tells us about how income and expenditure has change over one year and five years. Just
Did CIBC Really Just Call for Lower Tuition?
Last week, HuffPost ran a story highlighting a newsletter from CIBC Economics about higher education. It was actually a pretty meandering letter (CIBC Economics pieces on higher education are usually notable for their interesting use of data and somewhat shallow understanding of actual policy – here’s an earlier example). The newsletter touched on a number
McMaster > McGill?
The Shanghai Rankings (technically, the Academic Ranking of World Universities) came out a couple of weeks ago. This is the granddaddy of all international rankings; the one that started it all, and still perceived as the most stable and reliable measure of scientific hubs; essentially it measures large concentrations of
Free Tuition Developments
One major trend of the last couple of years in global higher education has been the arrival of a wave of “free tuition” policies in jurisdictions that formerly charged them and which – in some cases – have substantial private higher education sectors. But announcing free tuition is one thing:
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