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Final Thoughts on Historical Higher Ed Finances

After three blog posts looking at historical data on financing (see here, here and here), I thought I should do one final one which tries to tease out some lessons.  Let’s focus on what I think are the key graphs from yesterday: Figure 1: Total Institutional Income per FTE Student by Source, Canadian Universities, 1962-63 to 2020-21, in constant $2022 Figure 2: Total Institutional Income per Full-Time Student by Source, Canadian Colleges, 1976-77 to 2020-21, in constant $2022 Figure 3:

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April 18, 2023 3 Comments

Historical Higher Education Data-Palooza Part 3

So it seems a lot of you were pretty interested in last week’s data fest and in particular this graph (of which I am inordinately proud, ‘cos damn it took some work). Figure 1: Total Government Transfers to Institutions by Source and Type, Canada, 1955-56 to 2020-21, in millions of $2022. The big story here is that institutional income in post-secondary education has grown much faster from 1999 onwards than it did at any time in the preceding 30 years. 

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April 17, 2023 1 Comment

Budget Commentary 2023

Hello all. As usual, HESA Towers has been hard at work to bring you our budget commentary, which is available here. While there is the odd good news story in here – like more money for applied research in colleges – in the main, this is probably the worst budget for the higher education sector in years.  An $800 million year-on-year reduction in money for student grants – long foreshadowed, not by any means a breach of promise (the injection

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March 28, 2023 2 Comments

Budget Basics

At around 4PM today, the Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland will rise in the House of Commons to deliver her third, and the Trudeau government’s seventh, federal budget.  This is a good opportunity to give y’all a peak at how the sausage gets made, and how lobby/interest groups play a role in the development of budgets. The annual budget cycle starts pretty much the minute the previous one ends.  During spring time, the government spends its time working out how

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March 28, 2023 No Comments

Time to Overhaul Apprenticeships

There are three ways in which Canada is an outlier in apprenticeships, none of which – so far as I can tell – are based on any principles other than “well that’s the way we’ve always done them”. The first way in which our apprenticeships are different is that they cover a more restricted set of occupations than other countries.  For us, “apprenticeships” are largely synonymous with construction trades and certain manufacturing fields.  Compare, for instance, our top ten apprenticeable

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March 13, 2023 2 Comments

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