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Evaluating the Superclusters

Yes, this again.  Why?  Because a few weeks ago the feds released an economic analysis of the benefits of Innovation Superclusters (recently rebranded as Global Innovation Clusters to make them sound slightly less ridiculous).  It’s horrible analysis, but since this topic unites my twin pastimes of making fun of crap economic impact analysis and crap pseudo-industrial policy, I could not resist.   Some background: early in the Liberals’ first term, they announced that the key to growth was clusters – that

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September 19, 2022 1 Comment

Saskatchewan in a Nutshell

We have almost come to the end of the nutshell series.  In this, the final installment, we will look at Saskatchewan, which when you think of it is kind of to the other provinces what Canada is to the rest of the world.  The quintessence of Canada, if you will. Taking Saskatchewan last is partly a function of data problems in the province.  As in several other provinces, college numbers are subject to a sudden surge in the late aughts,

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September 14, 2022 2 Comments

Know Your Incoming Students (2022 edition)

Every three years the Canadian University Survey Consortium publishes a report on first-year students in Canada, and since their new report dropped a few weeks ago (available here), I thought it would be a good time to see what’s changed over the last few years. Quick recap on the CUSC survey: though the questions are mostly the same from year to year (or at least the ones I tend to examine are), the consortium membership changes from year-to-year, so comparisons

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September 7, 2022 No Comments

The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2022

Good morning.  Today marks the launch of the fifth edition of The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada (SPEC).  You can download it here.  It’s a bit different from previous editions: it includes a new section on research in Canada, as well as a new Appendix containing a set of information-sheets for each province (patterned on the “nutshell” series which y’all seemed to have enjoyed).  And I am sure it also includes a whole new batch of mistakes, too, which

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September 6, 2022 No Comments

Prince Edward Island in a Nutshell

Faithful readers will probably recall the “nutshell” series we produced last year (see here if you want to refresh your memory), in which we profiled 8 provinces’ post-secondary education systems before running out of time towards the end of the year, thereby disappointing some readers in Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan.  However, fear not!  We’re going to finish up this month, starting out east with the Island. To begin with student numbers: Prince Edward Island is the only province in

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September 1, 2022 No Comments

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