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A Zinger from HEQCO

To One Yonge Street, and the offices of the redoubtable Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO), who yesterday released a small publication with the unassuming name, The Productivity of the Ontario Public Postsecondary.  The title may be a little on the soporific side, but the contents are anything but. There are some real gems in here.  Did you know that 39% of all granting council funding went to Quebec?  OK, the grants on average are somewhat smaller than they are

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December 7, 2012 2 Comments

Student Summer Unemployment

Summer employment for students, being a vital source of both income and experience, is one of those things that everyone agrees is really important but almost nobody understands. What students actually do in the summer months is a messy mix of work, school, volunteering and (occasionally) bumming around. Today, we’re releasing the 2012 edition of our series on summer employment (co-authored by new HESA associate Jacqueline Lambert and yours truly), entitled Making the Most of It: Canadian Student Employment in

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July 23, 2012 No Comments

Initial Effects of a $9000 Tuition Hike

It’s been nearly two years since the U.K. government announced radical new tuition plans. From a little under 3300 GBP/year, the government allowed institutions to raise fees up to 9000 GBP. Loans rose to compensate, but grants did not. “Top” universities – essentially, any institution with pretensions to graduate education – all hiked their fees to the maximum; others, sometimes in response to some frankly weird government incentives, kept them a bit lower. Average tuition paid by U.K. students rose

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July 16, 2012 7 Comments

Just Over the Horizon

Recently I was asked about what I thought the big upcoming challenges – beyond the regular budget stuff – were for universities and colleges. From the shortest-term to the longest-term, my answer was: Not Getting Ahead of the Metrics Game. A perennial topic, but no less important for that. In every recession, governments re-double their efforts to manage the system through metrics. The odds are very strong that government-designed metrics are going to be goofy in the extreme (anyone remember

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July 9, 2012 1 Comment

Bibliometrics Finale: Age and Size

Today, we use our H-index Benchmarking of Academic Research (HiBAR) to look at the relationship between institutional characteristics and H-index scores. We’ve talked a lot this week about the positive correlation between a researcher’s age and his or her H-index score. But there’s another correlation to watch for: normalized institutional average H-index scores and institutional age. Check it out: Normalized Institutional Average H-Index Score as a Function of Institutional Age The result isn’t wholly clear cut: there are a lot

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June 15, 2012 No Comments

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