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Category: Data

Alberta in a Nutshell

A couple of weeks ago, I told you I’d be doing statistical portraits of various provinces over the next few weeks.  I started with Nova Scotia (where I spent some great days at the CICan national conference and seeing folks at various Halifax universities, and incidentally, congratulations to Joël Dickinson on her new appointment as President at Mount Saint Vincent University), and then asked for some advice about which province to do next.  The response was overwhelming: you wanted to

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May 10, 2022 No Comments

Nova Scotia in a Nutshell

As you may know, the HESA Towers team spends part of every summer compiling The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, which tracks national trends in higher education.  But what we don’t often do is go a level below that, to look in depth at what’s happening in individual provinces and how these developments compare to what is going on in other parts of the country.   So, for the next few weeks, we are presenting a statistical portrait of what

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April 21, 2022 No Comments

New Graduate Outcomes Data

I haven’t written about graduate labour market outcomes recently, and the good folks at the Council of Ontario Universities just published some new data on the class of 2018, so today seems like the day to come back to this topic. The main reason to use Ontario data to do this is because a) it’s available, b) it provides a useful amount of breakdown by discipline and c) it has a nice long time series.  The Statistics Canada Education and

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April 14, 2022 No Comments

How Europe Measures Equity in Admissions

When doing international comparative work in higher education, you’ll realise that the difficulty in comparing systems goes far beyond differences in system architecture and inconsistencies in data.  It’s more that there are genuine differences in how some issues are framed.  Take for instance, the issue of equity in admissions.  In North America, great positivists that we are, we would measure equity in admissions.  Report on them.  Try to improve on them.  We can see this in the United States all

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April 6, 2022 No Comments

World Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding

Good morning, all.  Today – FINALLY – marks the release of World Higher Education: Institutions, Students, Funding, which I have been co-authoring with HESA’s Jonathan Williams for the better part of three years now (Jonathan did most of the heavy lifting).  You can find the full report, as well as national profiles for each of the 56 countries included in the analysis, right here.  If you are a regular reader, you know a lot of the narratives.  In previous blog

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March 31, 2022 No Comments
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