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A Smart Paper on Access and Persistence

Last week Statistics Canada came out with a damn good paper on post-secondary access and persistence which I thought was worth highlighting. The paper is called Enrollment and Persistence in Postsecondary Education Among High School Graduates in British Columbia: A Focus on Special Needs Students, and it was written by Allison Leanage and Rubab Arim. It was made possible by linking together two databases: the Post-Secondary Student Information System (PSIS), which contains unit-record data on all post-secondary students in Canada

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May 13, 2024 No Comments

Budget Commentary 2024

Good (very early morning) all. Please find attached HESA’s Review of the 2024 Federal Budget. It’s a complicated budget with a lot of moving pieces, but the HESA Towers team did an amazing job last night in putting it all together for your enjoyment/edification. My take on this budget? Well, it is a difficult one to parse. There’s an effective cut to international student mobility. There’s an increase in funding to apprenticeships and First Nations’ students. This seems like a good trade. And

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April 16, 2024 1 Comment

Provincial Budgets, 2024-25

Morning, everyone. Yesterday, the government of Manitoba delivered its annual provincial budget, making it the tenth and final one to do so. That means I can do my annual analysis of provincial budgetary commitments! A couple of caveats before I start. First, there are several provinces that have changed the way they describe their post-secondary budget expenditures in their main estimates. The most important of these is in Quebec, where about a half-billion dollars in capital expenditures has disappeared from

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April 3, 2024 1 Comment

What Does a Poilievre Government Science Policy Look Like?

I did a tour of Ottawa the week before last, chatting with folks about what the future looks like. Here are some of the things I kept hearing. Treat absolutely nothing in here as a prediction, this is all just gossip. Now that last one I found very interesting, and I think it’s worth going back to the Harper record on Science and Universities. A lot of you got quite angry with me a few years ago when I compared

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April 1, 2024 5 Comments

Three Developments on the International Students File

First, there is the Conestoga-Sault College stand-off. You have probably already seen this one, but I have to point it out anyways, because it’s the most objectively hilarious thing that’s happened in years. Briefly, Sault College President David Orazietti made some comments to the effect that Conestoga President John Tibbits (the man who brought in 30,000 international students into southwestern Ontario, built new campuses to house them all and named one of them after himself) was the “bad actor” which

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February 20, 2024 1 Comment
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