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Category: Budgets

The Academic Oligarchy’s Kryptonite

Following up on yesterday’s discussion on the long-term rise of administration: it occurred to me after hitting send that there’s another aspect to the rise of administration I forgot to mention – budgeting.  Historically, administration has to some degree grown as a function of the complexity of budgeting, for some very good reasons. A hundred years ago, budgeting in higher education was a fairly simple affair because universities didn’t actually do much (by today’s standards, anyway).  A small number of

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March 28, 2019 2 Comments

Budget 2019 Commentary

Good morning all. Here’s your 2019 Budget Commentary ready for your review, brought to you through a globe-spanning collaboration between the team at HESA Towers and your humble correspondent pulling an all-nighter in the Arbat. We hope you enjoy it. As has usually been the case with budgets in this government, Budget 2019 is largely friendly to PSE with mostly good intentions but often only half-thought through ideas on implementation. Let’s start with the unambiguously good investments; namely, those for Indigenous

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March 20, 2019 1 Comment

What to Look for in Tonight’s Budget

At 4 PM EST, Finance Minister Bill Morneau will rise in the House of Commons to deliver his fourth budget, and the last one before a federal election in the fall.  What can we expect from the budget on the big PSE-files?  Here’s a quick rundown. Transfer Payments: Status quo. Research: My guess is that there are small goodies in this budget, if only to give them an excuse to reprint everything they did last year in this year’s budget

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March 19, 2019 No Comments

Straight Dope on Learning Accounts

So, le tout Ottawa now seems convinced, given that a) the March budget is allegedly about skills (for the middle class, you know), b) the feds mostly handed the skills portfolio over to the provinces years ago that Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs), are definitely On The Agenda.  Possibly with some language around guaranteeing workers time off for skills training. So, can this work?  Has it worked elsewhere?  Glad you asked. The idea of ILAs are nothing new.  In one form or another

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February 14, 2019 1 Comment

Ontario: Best-case/Worst-case Scenarios

You may have heard that there is a Conservative government in Ontario.  You may also have heard that it is, shall we say, keen on reducing government expenditures.  Further, you are aware that a provincial budget is traditionally delivered sometime between February and May.  So, naturally, you are asking yourself: what might the new government’s budget mean for post-secondary education?  What are the best-case and worst-case scenarios? I can’t claim much here in the way of inside information.  There are

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January 15, 2019 No Comments

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