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Millennial Complaints (Part 2)

So, before I was rudely interrupted last week by Ontario’s government with its tuition/OSAP announcement, I was talking about whether the belief of Millennials that they are a uniquely put-upon generation was justified or not.  My view was they certainly are not if your basis of comparison was income or wealth of Millennials in Canada versus its predecessors (i.e. the so-called “Generation X. But other measures tell a different story. In Canada, the balance on income and wealth tilts in favour of

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January 21, 2019 No Comments

College Finance Data, 2016-17

A few months ago, I promised you all an update on college finances when Statscan finally got around to updating its FINCOL tables.  Well, that day is here. Unlike universities, which have seen their budgets grow in real terms by about 25% over the last decade, growth in college budgets has been a lot slower – only about 14% – and nearly all that growth has come from student fees, since government support has been essentially flat.  In total, college

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January 14, 2019 No Comments

New Statscan Graduate Earnings Data

For some time now, Statistics Canada has been working on at least partially superseding the National Graduates Survey (NGS) with something much better – a direct link between school-record and tax data, allowing for a more thorough and complete examination of trends in education and the labour market. For context: the NGS dates to 1982 (though it had a forerunner in 1976).  It’s a survey which was originally delivered to the graduating classes of 1982, 1986, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and

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December 12, 2018 No Comments

The Future of Rankings is Excellent

I‘ve been in Europe for most of the past two weeks on a number of rankings-related projects.  And as a result of these travels, I’m more optimistic about international rankings than I have been for a long time.  Here’s why. First of all, we are getting a lot of new data at the international level.  There are two primary sources for this. The first is the THE rankings – in particular their new European Teaching Rankings, which use surveys to look at

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December 7, 2018 No Comments

HEQCO’s Intriguing Skills Report

HEQCO produced a fascinating report on skills last week, which I want to explore in depth.  Unfortunately, it has put a few people’s backs up because of a couple of poorly-chosen sentences in a covering press release, which I will also explore.  But let’s focus on the first bit, because simply putting this study took an enormous amount of effort that needs to be acknowledged and celebrated. (Actually, they released two intriguing reports: one on literacy and numeracy and one on critical thinking. 

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December 4, 2018 1 Comment

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