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Category: Canada

FutureSkills Lab

Hey, does anyone remember FutureSkills Lab?  That big idea that came out of the Barton Committee about a year and a half ago and included in the 2017 budget with at least moderate amounts of fanfare?  The one that was supposed to “identify skill gaps with employers, explore new and innovative approaches to skills development and share information so that Canadians are well equipped for opportunities in the new economy”? It kind of seems to have died a quiet death,

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May 8, 2018 No Comments

An Excellent Idea

Good news!  There is now a litmus test in Ontario to see which interest groups and/or political parties – if any – actually care about expanding access to post-secondary education and which just prefer grandstanding about tuition and/or student aid.  And that test is whether or not anyone will bother to endorse the recommendations put forward by Carleton’s Jennifer Robson in her paper Post-Secondary Access: Better Life Chances for Ontario’s Children, published last week by U of T’s School of Public

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April 30, 2018 1 Comment

What Makes Canada Unique in Post-Secondary Education

[the_ad id=”12142″] An Australian colleague of mine once suggested to me that I built my career primarily on filling in the holes in Statistics Canada’s severely limited PSE stats.  I don’t think this is actually true, but it probably is fair to say that some of the breaks in my career have involved explaining Canadian PSE to the rest of the world in terms they can understand.  Partly, that involves being able to describe Canada as a single system of

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April 27, 2018 2 Comments

Why Are We Applauding Statscan’s Lack of Strategic Focus?

Remember about twenty months ago when everyone was gaga over the idea that the feds were going to pay for an expanded version of the faculty survey? And there would be data on part-timers!  And on equity criteria!   And maybe community colleges too! Of course it was never clear that this would achieve anything like what its supporters claimed (mainly because it’s not clear how many profs are prepared to have certain personal data on things like race and disability recorded by

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March 13, 2018 2 Comments

Budget 2018

Good morning all. We at HESA Towers have our 2018 Budget Commentary ready for your review. So, last night was interesting, what with the Budget, the response to the Naylor report and the criminal scheduling of all this on the same evening as Toronto FC’s home-opener (yes, I am still bitter).  It was particularly interesting because the budget’s direction was difficult to guess in advance.  Sure, we knew the middle class was going to be mentioned, and some focus on

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February 28, 2018 2 Comments

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