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Sleepwalking towards Sydney

Morning all.  Our annual State of Postsecondary Education in Canada piece is now available on our website.  It updates the data from last year, plus adds a little bit of extra contextual data on the student body and international comparisons.  But more than anything else, it shines a light on one key theme: the changing finances of Canadian universities and colleges; and the consequence of the prolonged freeze in government transfers to institutions. Back in 2010-11, provincial governments were collectively handing over

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August 27, 2019 3 Comments

Adversity Scores

Who deserves to go to university?  Particularly the prestigious ones with selective admissions?  It’s easy enough to say “everyone”, or “anyone with the ability to benefit from it”, but when it comes to any specific institution, usually the demand for spaces exceeds the supply.  When that happens, some type of rationing procedure comes into play.  In nearly every country in the world (Canada is a rare exception), this rationing gets done either partly or completely on the basis of a

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May 22, 2019 3 Comments

Better Know A Higher Education System: Westeros

Although the politics of Westeros are widely discussed in North America (well, in HESA Towers, anyway, where we’re all getting ready for an office finale viewing on Sunday), relatively little attention has been paid to the role of higher education in the Seven Kingdoms.  Or rather, the ramifications of its lack thereof. Magic and dragons aside, Westeros seems like your basic high medieval economy/society – 13th or 14th century, by the look of it.   Europe at this point in its

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May 17, 2019 1 Comment

2019 Provincial Budget Roundup

Every year around this time, I do a simple piece summarizing all the provincial budgets.  I usually wait until all ten are done – so y’all get the full national picture – but unfortunately that’s not possible this year because neither PEI nor Alberta, both of whom quite recently acquired new administrations, are planning on getting budgets out the door before I break for the summer.   So, I figured I may as well get the whole thing – or 8

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May 15, 2019 2 Comments

Moneyball

I was at a conference last week in Italy, much of which focused around the use of data in institutional decision-making (technically it was a conference on rankings, but increasingly rankings are being seen as a data source for institutional benchmarking and strategizing rather than as a consumer tool, so there was a lot of overlap). One of the most interesting presentations involved a lot of discussion on the sheer amount of data now available on institutional performance (which, depending

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May 14, 2019 2 Comments
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