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Education at a Glance 2025, Part 1

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual stat fest, Education at a Glance (EAG), two weeks ago and I completely forgot about it. But since not a single Canadian news outlet wrote anything about it (neither it nor the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada saw fit to put together a “Canada” briefing, apparently), this blog – two weeks later than usual – is still technically a scoop. Next week, I will review some new data

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September 23, 2025 No Comments

Turning the Corner

Things have been bleak in higher education the last couple of years, and no doubt they will remain bleak for a while. But it recently became clear to me how we’ll know that we are turning the corner: it will be the moment when provincial governments start allowing significant rises in domestic tuition. This became clear to me when I was having a discussion with a senior provincial official (in a province I shall not name) about tuition. I was

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September 22, 2025 4 Comments

The Fifteen: September 19, 2025

Welcome to The Fifteen, a global round-up of the stories animating higher education institutions and systems around the globe. Let’s get to it. See you back here in two weeks!

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September 19, 2025 No Comments

Crisis or Reform? Higher Education in Milei’s Argentina with Marcelo Rabossi

Back in late 2023, a little known libertarian by the name of Javier Milei was elected President of Argentina with a strong mandate to conquer that country’s hyperinflation. His strategy for doing so was pretty straightforward — freeze public spending, which would mean a big loss in real terms until inflation came down, and then let the free market do the rest. That was easier said than done. Milei lacked a majority in Congress and all of the legacy parties

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September 18, 2025 No Comments

Fun with Tuition Data

I want to show you something kind of intriguing about how tuition is changing in Canada. By now you might be familiar with a chart that looks like Figure 1, which shows average tuition, exclusive of ancillary fees (which would tack another $900-1000 on to the total), in constant $2024. The story it shows is one of persistent real increases from up until 2017-18, at which point, mainly thanks to policy changes in Ontario, tuition falls sharply and continues to

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September 17, 2025 2 Comments

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