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Category: Data

Student-Teacher Ratios

This is a full-on data nerd blog on faculty numbers and ratios.  Normally, we would put this stuff in The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, but StatsCan took its sweet time delivering me the data and I missed the publication of the data.  But hey, better late than never, so let’s dive in. Before we get to the numbers, some methodological notes (I told you this was for nerds).  Annoyingly, StatsCan counts teachers by “Principal Subject Taught”, which is

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October 3, 2023 5 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada, Part 2

Yesterday, we looked at what and where international students studied in Canada. Today, I want to zero in a bit on where international students are from. Let’s start with the issue of country of origin.  Care is required because the data gets a bit tricky: there are something like 135,000 students in Canada who are of dual origin. They are Canadian students, but they also have citizenship in another country.  In this post I will focus on the nation or

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September 27, 2023 2 Comments

A Brief Look at International Students in Canada (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, I realized that I’ve never really written a good blog on where and what international students study in Canada.  Think of today’s blog as my way of making amends.  (Note: this is Statscan enrolment data and so refers to enrolments in the fall of 2020, roughly 36 months ago.  Assume that things have changed somewhat since then). Let’s start with the question of what international students study and how this has changed over time.   Figure 1

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September 26, 2023 3 Comments

Education at a Glance 2023

The OECD’s annual Education at a Glance (EAG) report came out last week.  It’s a One Thought tradition to go through this report in detail for the latest international comparisons on institutional income and participation rates, but I’m going to mostly forego that this year.  That’s partially because I have a doozy of a piece coming out on finance in a week or two, but also because this year’s EAG contains some interesting special topics worth looking at, particularly with

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September 20, 2023 1 Comment

State of Postsecondary Education in Canada 2023

Rejoice, all!  For today is the publication for The State of Postsecondary in Education, 2023, your annual statistical guide to all things in our sector.  This year’s edition does not contain any new chapters or appendices, but we have expanded coverage of certain matters related to the student body, particularly with respect to gender and to international students.   With hundreds of pages and graphs, I know you’re going to be up all night reading it.  Try not to strain yourselves. 

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September 6, 2023 6 Comments
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