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One Podcast to Start Your Day-United Kingdom

On this episode of One Podcast to Start Your Day, we’re hopping overseas to chat with our friends from Wonkhe for a year-in-review on higher education in the United Kingdom. David Kernohan (Acting Editor), Jim Dickinson (Associate Editor), and Sunday Blake (Associate Editor) join us to talk about some of the UK’s most pressing issues in higher education. The full podcast can be found with a full transcript here, along with the past episodes of OPTSYD.  Thanks to our producers Tiffany MacLennan

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December 6, 2022 No Comments

One Podcast to Start Your Day-Newfoundland and Labrador

Good morning.  In exciting news, One Podcast to Start Your Day can now be found on all of your favourite podcast apps and includes a RSS feed. This episode, and the two previous ones, can be found here: https://anchor.fm/optsyd. Today we have different version of One Podcast to Start Your Day.  We invited Dale Kirby to our virtual table for a one-on-one discussion of post-secondary education in Newfoundland and Labrador. Dale’s background as a Professor in the Faculty of Education

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December 1, 2022 No Comments

Data Priorities

You all know I complain a lot about data in Canada.  So today, I thought I’d assemble a wish list: a set of priorities for developing a better system of higher education data, along with some thoughts about how these measures could be implemented as part of a larger, overall accountability agenda Now, I am going to focus on the need for new data but there is a lot that could be done to make better use of existing data. 

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November 29, 2022 1 Comment

Supply-Side Liberalism and Post-Secondary Education

There is a new intellectual fashion in the United States called Supply-Side Liberalism.  Basically, the idea is that government’s main role is less about managing aggregate demand and more ensuring the cheapest possible supply of goods and services.  In the US, this approach is rapidly emerging as the new centrist consensus, mainly because the sudden return of inflation as a major economic phenomenon means that all the left bromides about the need to use government funding to stimulate aggregate demand

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November 24, 2022 1 Comment

University Finances 2021-22

Nearly all universities have posted their financial statements for 2021-22, so that means it’s time to look at how year two of COVID went for Canadian universities. Let’s define who is included in the sample.   Not all institutions have put out their 2021-22 financials including: Algoma University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Concordia University, Université Laval, Polytechnique, and the Université du Québec system, so these cannot be included.  I have also left out Mount Royal University and

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November 22, 2022 1 Comment

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