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Category: Canada

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

The Budget Speech Bill Morneau Should Give

“…Mr. Speaker, we know that living standards depend on productivity, productivity depends on innovation, and innovation depends on skills, technology, and competition.  So we are going to ramp up on all of them.  This won’t be easy.  It won’t be quick.  We are not doing this with an eye to the next election; it’s a marathon not a sprint.  But we have to start somewhere. Skills Let’s start with skills.  While recognizing that having a skilled labour force is a

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February 27, 2018 1 Comment

Superclusters, Cold Fusion and Perpetual Motion

When writing last week about superclusters, I neglected to go through the actual “economic impact statements” that were being touted by the clusters themselves. It seems that the Industry Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), has to some degree accepted the statements.  And I think this is important because some of what is being suggested is pretty close to a national scandal. So, let’s take a quick look at what, allegedly, we’re getting for our $950 million in Supercluster investments.

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February 23, 2018 3 Comments
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