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New Brunswick in a Nutshell

Morning everyone.  Today’s edition of the Nutshell series features one of the more anomalous provinces in Canada (from a higher education perspective, at least), the one whose beaches Le Monde once referred to as “Canada’s Riviera”: New Brunswick! New Brunswick’s anomalous status is mostly centered around the issue of enrolment: it is the only province in Confederation that has seen effectively no growth over the past two decades.  This is not to say that there have been no changes –

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May 24, 2022 1 Comment

Manitoba in a Nutshell

Good morning. We’ve done “nutshell” portraits of Nova Scotia, Alberta and British Columbia.   Now, on to the greatest province of them all, the only one that shot its way into Confederation, Manitoba. Let’s start with student numbers.  Manitoba has seen slow but steady growth on the university side, with numbers growing from 25,000 to 40,000 between 2001 and 2020  With colleges, it is hard to be exact about growth rates since a substantial portion of the increase shown here was in fact due to changing Statistics Canada

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May 18, 2022 No Comments

Nova Scotia in a Nutshell

As you may know, the HESA Towers team spends part of every summer compiling The State of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, which tracks national trends in higher education.  But what we don’t often do is go a level below that, to look in depth at what’s happening in individual provinces and how these developments compare to what is going on in other parts of the country.   So, for the next few weeks, we are presenting a statistical portrait of what

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April 21, 2022 No Comments

Inflation

One of the less-anticipated outcomes of the COVID pandemic is the return of inflation at levels not seen in nearly thirty years.  It is not yet clear if this inflation is something transitory, or something more long-term.  The supply-chain snarls of mid-2021 have been followed by inflationary spikes due to rising oil prices and now – with the invasion of Ukraine – major spikes in food prices world-wide.  In theory, each of these things is a one-off.  But as wages

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March 24, 2022 2 Comments

International Student Externalities

You may have seen the news from California regarding a lawsuit by a well-to-do Berkeley resident against the University of California which has forced the latter to reduce its 2022 enrolment by 2,600 students.  Basically, the plaintiff – a well-to-do local who spends half his time in Nelson, New Zealand – said that too many students were destroying the neighbourhood and sued the university over its enrolment plans, using the California Environmental Quality Act.   A lower court agreed with the

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March 21, 2022 2 Comments
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