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Three Takes on the Latest Ontario Universities Applications Data

The Ontario High School Application numbers dropped last week, and I thought it would be worth a quick tour of the data.  Two things first: First: I know folks from outside Ontario get cheesed off about the way I keep banging on about Ontario numbers, but here’s the thing: the rest of y’all don’t publish your data.  I cannot write about hidden data: sorry. Second: speaking of hidden data, the Ontario Universities Application Centre, for extremely flimsy reasons, has stopped

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January 26, 2023 No Comments

Indigenous Identity

The issue of identity – specifically, the identity of scholars claiming to be Indigenous – is one of increasing importance in Canadian universities.  The recent resignations of Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond and Carrie Bourassa from UBC and the University of Saskatchewan, respectively, have had an enormous impact on those campuses.  Every campus needs to pay very careful attention to what as gone on at these institutions and adjust their policies accordingly. With respect to the case of Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a legal scholar

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January 23, 2023 1 Comment

New Data on Completion Rates

For the last few years, Statscan has been publishing cohort completion data using the Post-Secondary Student Information System (PSIS).  A new round of data dropped last week, and there were several interesting nuggets for anyone who cared to dive in a little bit behind the headline numbers.  Let’s dive in, shall we? Let’s begin with university undergraduate degrees.  Figure 1 shows the 6-year completion rate for undergraduate degrees in Canada (note, completion here refers to completion of the degree-level in

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January 19, 2023 No Comments

College Finances 2020-21

Let’s catch up on some new Statscan data on college finances during COVID.  The big headline can be seen in figure 1:  Total income for colleges dropped by 8.4% in real terms during 2020-21.  About 40% of that fall was due to inflation, the rest was an absolute drop in income.  But break it down by source of income, and you see something different: income from governments was down by 2%, income from student fees by 11%, and income from

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January 11, 2023 No Comments

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

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