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Know Your Incoming Students (2019 edition)

It’s the start of the school year and that’s the best time to examine trends among incoming students. Fortunately for us, this is one of those subjects where Canada has decent public data on the subject, as the Canadian University Survey Consortium (CUSC) has been asking a (mostly) consistent set of questions to first-year students on a triennial basis since 2001. It’s not a perfect survey: consortium membership changes from cycle to cycle, so the base population is neither equal

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August 28, 2019 No Comments

Counting Foreign Students

An American colleague of mine sent me a note the other day.  “So…Canada is heading to a million foreign students? That’s huge!”  To which my reaction was: “Wut?  Dude, it’s about a quarter of that.” At which point my colleague emailed me a recent story from ThePIE, a nifty little London-based outlet which covers international education.  It was called Will Canada have quadrupled its student numbers in eight years? by Dave Sage, who appears to be some kind of immigration and education

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June 14, 2019 1 Comment

Delusional in Delhi

Last week, the Modi government in Delhi released a draft National Education Plan (NEP).  This is a big deal because the last new NEP came out over 30 years ago, and the Modi government has been promising a new one ever since it was first elected in 2014.  It’s also a big deal because it proposes some very big things, especially in higher education.  But Modi while has a reputation for talking up big goals, his track record on delivery is

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June 13, 2019 No Comments

From the Shelves of HESA Towers (III)

As each year passes, it becomes harder to remember what exactly life was like before the internet.  How did we communicate?  How did we store and retrieve information?  (A colleague recently commented on twitter that watching All the President’s Men today feels like an ad for Google because the first hour or so is just people looking through phone books).  And, if you were in a specific technical field like higher education, how did you keep track of what was going on

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June 7, 2019 No Comments

Two Important Statscan Papers

Statistics Canada released a couple of papers in the last month which unfairly got zero play in the general media, so thought I would pick them up and amplify them here. The first one, by the ever-excellent Marc Frenette, is called Do Youth From Lower- and Higher-Income Families Benefit Equally From Postsecondary Education? and it’s a pretty important question from a public policy point of view, since a good deal of the rationale for widening access is premised on the

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May 24, 2019 1 Comment

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