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Category: Data

Comparative Spending Statistics

Just a short one today, based on some data from the OECD in its annual Education at a Glance Report which was released last week. I won’t do a full report, as many of the post-secondary indicators are banal and predictable (Canada does well at churning out post-secondary graduates, etc., etc.). But the report does contain one intriguing set of new tables: for the first time (AFAIK), the OECD has gathered data that, in theory at least, allow for international

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October 5, 2026 No Comments

Data for Internationalization

The following is adapted from a talk given at the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) conference in Orlando, Florida, back in May. My thanks to Mike Alcott of ApplyBoard for the invitation to participate in the panel. There are a lot of folks in the business of moving international students from one place to another who want more data. They think more data will help them target students better by predicting changes in international student demand. But is

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September 28, 2026 No Comments

The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 2026

Morning all. The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada 2026 is out today, and you can download it here. Sincere thanks to our partners at Studiosity, Riipen, Pearson, Duolingo, Intellectual Property Ontario and Westcliff University for helping to produce this year’s version and keep it free for everyone to use. Anything you want to know about Canadian post-secondary education should be in here – but if it’s not, email us and tell us what you think we should add next

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September 9, 2026 No Comments

China Update 2026

Hi all. Every couple of years I spend some time going through data on Chinese higher education and, in particular, the finances of the country’s top universities. It’s been two years since the last time I did this, so here goes: Figure 1 shows total expenditures at what I call China’s Big 8 universities (which is actually just the elite C9 League of universities minus the Harbin Institute of Technology, which does not make previous years’ financial data available), in

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May 25, 2026 No Comments

First-Generation Students, Graduate Migration, and AI’s Effect on the Labour Market

The above is a banger of a title but, unfortunately, I am not weaving those three topics into a single master narrative. Rather, today I’d like to catch everyone up on some Statistics Canada releases from the last couple of weeks which I think deserve wider attention. Canadian First-Generation Students Fare Pretty Well. First up is a paper by Landry Kuate, Amélie Lafrance-Cooke, and Jenny Watt entitled The educational pathways of first-generation students. “First generation” students – that is, students

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March 9, 2026 No Comments
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