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2021 PSE Election Manifestos – The Liberal Party

This is the fourth and final election manifesto analysis of this godforsaken election.  You can find previous analyses of the Conservative Party platform here, the New Democratic Party platform here and the absolute flaming garbage fire of a Green Party platform here.  I am not doing the Bloc because their platform is “Ottawa should go pound sand” (for which I have some sympathy, but it doesn’t make for a good blog post), and I don’t do the PPC because their

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September 14, 2021 No Comments

2021 PSE Platforms – The Green Party

This is the third in the series of party platform analyses.  The analysis of the Conservative platform analysis is available here, and that for the New Democratic Party platform is here.  Today’s analysis is the Green Party, which is every bit the piece of dramatic flaming ludicrousness we have come to expect from them. I will start by being as nice as I can possibly be.  <deep breath>  There’s a somewhat odd reference to removing the 2% cap in post-secondary education funding for

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September 13, 2021 1 Comment

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
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