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Alberta Election Manifestos 2023

Alberta goes to the polls next Monday, so it’s time for another edition of “check out those election promises”.  I’ll restrict my comments to the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the United Conservative Party (UCP) since those are the only parties likely to win seats or crack 3% of the vote (yes, yes, the Alberta Party – colour me unconvinced). You can see the New Democratic Party Platform here.  It’s not quite a platform in the traditional sense of having

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May 23, 2023 1 Comment

Colombian Higher Education

On this week’s episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast, Javier Botero joins us to discuss Colombian higher education. These days he’s a lead consultant at the World Bank, but formerly he was the Vice Minister of Higher Education in Colombia, and he’s here with us today to provide an overview of recent policy developments in the nation. Colombia’s higher education system is complex. In addition to a large number of universities, it also has two other sectors, one

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May 18, 2023 No Comments

Provincial Budgets 2023-24

Morning, all.  It’s time for our annual provincial budget round-up.  University Affairs has done its round-up of budget announcements; I’m here to put the whole set of financial commitments under the lens and give it some long-term context. A couple of caveats before I start. First, PEI is not included, for the simple reason that the government chose not to submit a budget before going to the polls a couple of weeks ago.  But, in the big fiscal picture of

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April 19, 2023 2 Comments

Historical Higher Ed Data-Palooza Part 2

Today’s discussion might be a little less exciting than yesterday because although I now have all this cool data on finances going back to 1920, holy hell are there some difficulties coming up with way to provide a unified data series through that period.  So, apologies, but you’re in for some long parenthetical statements on methodology. The main reason I was looking for historical data in the first place was that I was trying to resolve a long-standing puzzle around

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April 12, 2023 3 Comments

Research Re-shuffle

The Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System released its report last week while I was playing boulevardier in Tokyo with Little Miss Sumo (somehow, I’d never really noticed what an enormous fraction of the city’s economy and real estate is devoted to cube toys and claw machines).  It’s more interesting than the usual Ottawa report, and not just because of the murky politics. The report begins with a problematique wheremost of the space was devoted to telling the

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March 27, 2023 1 Comment

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