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Category: Data

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

2018/19 Enrolment Data

Last Thursday was that frabjous day which every higher education nerd has pencilled into their calendar: where Statscan publishes post-secondary enrolment data and for one brief moment we go from having enrolment data which is 37 months out of date to a mere 25 months out of date.  Now, the big picture will be familiar to everyone who read The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, because I already went and got most of this data from institutional websites, but the

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December 1, 2020 1 Comment

Institutional Economic Impact Statements Part 2

Yesterday, we looked at how Economic Impact Statements are put together.  Today, we want to look at the uses and misuses of these statements. Let’s start by acknowledging that these statements are not primarily designed to be objective, academic analyses of impact.  Rather, they are political documents, meant to put an institution in a good light.  There’s nothing wrong with that, but it means that they need to be read with a certain eye.  Given the built-in incentive to exaggerate

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November 18, 2020 1 Comment

Institutional Economic Impact Statements: The Basics

For all sorts of reasons, higher education institutions find the need to “show value”.  One of the ways they do this is through economic impact statements.  My HESA Towers colleague Michael Savage has been doing a review of these across Canada and in a couple of other countries and has come up with a really simple framework for thinking about them. Today and tomorrow we’ll be taking an in-depth look at what these documents can and cannot actually explain. Ready? 

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November 17, 2020 1 Comment
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