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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

Measuring Social Mobility in Higher Education

It is a universally acknowledged truth that while nearly every higher education policy maker in the world is required to discuss The Imperative of Accessibility, almost no one defines or measures it.  Because God forbid access policies, especially Canadian policies, be informed by evidence. It’s not like it’s impossible to do.  In the UK, the University and College Application Service simply analyses the postal codes of applicants and students and use that to track changes over time.  Are student entry rates

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November 28, 2018 1 Comment

The Balance of Federal-Provincial Expenditures

Today, I am going to try to pull all this data together to see to what extent federal and provincial shares of expenditure in PSE have changed over time. As far as institutional expenditures go, the presence of federal indirect transfers complicates a good historical look at the question.  Up until 1976, it’s possible to look directly at cash and tax transfers specifically designated for PSE, and it is possible again after 2007-08 when the Harper Government carved out a

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November 9, 2018 No Comments
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