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Category: Funding and Finances

That Alberta Budget

Alberta has long been a fiscal outlier in Canada. It is by some distance Canada’s richest province (in the sense that household incomes per capita are the highest) and its provincial governments—mostly Conservative, but with a New Democrat interlude between 2015 and 2019—have long provided Albertans with public services to match. However, the one thing the Alberta government refuses to do is impose a sales tax or even a particularly imposing regime of personal taxes, preferring instead to ride the

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October 25, 2019 3 Comments

Changing Finances of World-Class Universities Part 3

So now we come to the heart of the matter: what’s actually going on in terms of publication outcomes (both the number and the impact)? For the first couple of graphs, I’m going to include the 11 top-200 schools from the People’s Republic of China just for the sheer fun of it (I have China data for research, but not finances). Figure 1 takes shows the increase in research output at top-200 universities, by country, for the years 2014-2017 over

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October 24, 2019 1 Comment

The Changing Finances of World-Class Universities (part 2)

If you are just joining us, we’re in the middle of a three-day session on the finances of the world’s top-200 universities, or, more specifically, the 147 of them in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada. Yesterday,  I showed that the top-200 institutions in all these countries were increasing their total expenditures in real terms, albeit at different rates, and that their research funding was also increasing substantially (in fact, faster than general revenues

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October 23, 2019 No Comments

The Changing Finances of World-Class Universities (part 1)

Last week, I was in Shanghai at the biennial World-Class Universities Conference, held by the Academic Ranking of World Universities/Shanghai Rankings Consultancy, for which I have the honour to sit on the advisory board.  I was presenting some work-in-progress that we have going at HESA Towers concerning the finances of the world’s top universities, and thought I could share some of our findings with you over the next couple of days. (I know, I know, y’all want to know what

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October 22, 2019 1 Comment

The 2019 Election: A Final View

Ok, everyone.  We’re at the finish line.  Among the things we’ve looked at in preparation for this day are: A history of Canadian PSE through election manifestos. A summation of the Liberal record on PSE, skills and science. A comparison of the Trudeau and Harper records on PSE, skills and science. A summary of the 2019 Green, New Democrat, Conservative, and Liberal plans on PSE, skills and science. Two quick updates on things announced.  First, the Greens.  After my piece on the Greens, leader Elizabeth

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October 21, 2019 1 Comment

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