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Globe Data Wrongness

On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robyn Doolittle.  On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy.  But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data analysis.  Consider the blog my way of correcting the record. Wang and Doolittle’s data

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June 7, 2021 1 Comment

More on Measuring Social Mobility

There have been some interesting recent developments with respect to measuring the contribution that universities make to social mobility.  Not in Canada of course – that would require caring about education outcomes or having any capacity for measuring and reporting data on socio-economic mobility – but rather in the UK and the US.  Let me take you on a quick tour of what’s going on and what is being learned. Back in 2017, the John Bates Clark-award-winning economist Raj Chetty

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May 31, 2021 No Comments

Examining Learning Experiences During COVID

Written in collaboration with Michael Sullivan Good morning, all.  Today’s blog is a collaboration with my colleague Michael Sullivan at the Strategic Counsel (with whom we at HESA Towers have been doing some joint projects over the past year or so) and it’s about the results of a new recently completed survey, which looks at students’ learning experiences since the start of this academic year.  It’s an interesting half-full half-empty story, but with some very important future implications. Figure 1

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January 28, 2021 1 Comment

Some Surprising Applications Data

Canada, as I think everyone is, on the whole, in the main, crap at educational data.  When it comes to getting up-to-the-minute data on things like enrolments and applications, we’re mostly hopeless, because everyone does their own thing and nobody bothers to make their data public or comparable until Statscan comes along 28 or months or so after the fact.  There are only two major exceptions to this: the Atlantic Association of Universities, which puts out a super-speedy enrolment check

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January 27, 2021 5 Comments

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