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The Childcare Debate and PSE

Childcare and post-secondary education share enough traits that they are worth examining together, as HESA has done previously here and here.  The most obvious similarity is that, in contrast to K-12 education, they are both forms of non-compulsory education.  Well, sort of: it’s never entirely clear to what extent people are pushing childcare as an education measure and to what extent they are pushing its value to freeing families – mainly women – to participate in the labour market which results in

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September 7, 2021 1 Comment

State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2021

Morning all.  Big day at HESA Towers, as we release the State of Postsecondary Education in Canada 2021 (just click on the link, folks).  As usual, it has all the good stuff about students, staff, institutional finances, government spending, student financial aid graduate outcomes, but this year it comes in a much prettier package, highlighting the many architectural gems found at universities and colleges across the country.  This is phase I of our visual identity/brand refresh that we’ll be rolling out over the next

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September 2, 2021 2 Comments

2021 PSE Platforms – The Conservative Party

Alright, fam.  You know the drill.  It’s a federal election, so between now and September 20th, I’ll be looking at various party manifestos to see what they portend for our sector, and then finishing up with some comparative analysis.  I am not entirely sure how many parties I will do: I never do the Bloc for obvious reasons, so that leaves three and *maybe* a fourth if the Greens get their act together to release any policies and stop behaving

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September 1, 2021 1 Comment

Inter-provincial Student Mobility

We talk a lot about international student mobility in Canada.  But what about inter-provincial student mobility?  Let’s go find out. In 2018-19, the last year for which data is available, the proportion of Canadian undergraduates who were studying in another province was about 8.4%.  As Figure 1 shows, this proportion has been increasing very slowly for the last thirty years (the precipitous drop in 1996-97 has to do with Quebec universities not reporting data in that year, something which I am pretty

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August 31, 2021 3 Comments

Back With a Jab

Morning all.  Ready to go?  No, me neither.  But the show must go on. It’s going to be a busy few weeks.  Our annual State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada comes out on Thursday.  We’ve got an election on September 20th, which may have some pretty significant consequences for post-secondary education (the childcare accords of the last few months are hugely consequential for higher education in a way that has not properly been appreciated, and I’ll be writing on that subject later

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August 30, 2021 1 Comment

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