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Category: Canada

New Brunswick in a Nutshell

Morning everyone.  Today’s edition of the Nutshell series features one of the more anomalous provinces in Canada (from a higher education perspective, at least), the one whose beaches Le Monde once referred to as “Canada’s Riviera”: New Brunswick! New Brunswick’s anomalous status is mostly centered around the issue of enrolment: it is the only province in Confederation that has seen effectively no growth over the past two decades.  This is not to say that there have been no changes –

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May 24, 2022 1 Comment

Manitoba in a Nutshell

Good morning. We’ve done “nutshell” portraits of Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia.   Now, on to the greatest province of them all, the only one that shot its way into Confederation, Manitoba. Let’s start with student numbers.  Manitoba has seen slow but steady growth on the university side, with numbers growing from 25,000 to 40,000 between 2001 and 2020  With colleges, it is hard to be exact about growth rates since a substantial portion of the increase shown here was in fact due to changing Statistics Canada

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May 18, 2022 No Comments

Northern Post-secondary Education

Though it passed mostly un-noticed south of 60, the Task Force on Northern Post-Secondary Education issued its final report at the end of March.  It’s worth taking a bit of time to examine and reflect on what it says. Most of the report is concerned with the documentation of barriers to the growth of higher education in the North, as recounted through public consultations and a literature review.  And these challenges are substantial: the K-12 pipeline is much weaker than

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May 17, 2022 1 Comment

British Columbia in A Nutshell

Morning everyone.  You know the drill by now, since we’ve already done this for Nova Scotia and Alberta.   So, let’s get going. Let’s start with student numbers.  British Columbia is very much like Alberta in the sense that it used to be a province where college students outnumbered university students until several institutions switched from being colleges to universities and everything switched.  In BC, we see this in 2008-09, which is when Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver

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May 12, 2022 No Comments

Provincial Budgets 2022

All ten provinces have now issued their budgets, so it’s time for our annual look at how governments across the country are choosing to invest (or not) in higher education.   Just a quick reminder about how I do this.  What I measure is budget commitments – that is, what governments say they are going to spend year over year.  This is not quite the same thing as what they actually spend – there are always small differences between what governments

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May 11, 2022 No Comments
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