Early Results from the Tennessee “Free Tuition” Experiment June 1, 2016

| Alex Usher

You may remember a blog I wrote last year concerning something called the Tennessee Promise.  Described by some as a … Continued

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• Colleges and Polytechnics
• Data
• Funding and Finances
• Policy
• Tuition
• Worldwide PSE

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• Free Tuition
• Tennessee
• United States

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Three Unconnected Thoughts on PSE and Aboriginal Peoples May 27, 2016

| Alex Usher

1)      Changing Disciplines In the last five years or so, I’ve seen a real change in the way Aboriginal students are … Continued

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• Canada
• Colleges and Polytechnics
• Funding and Finances
• Indigenous PSE
• Students
• Universities

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• Truth and Reconciliation

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How Rich are China’s Universities? May 17, 2016

| Alex Usher

Last week, Mike Gow at the Daxue blog linked to some interesting data recently published by the Chinese government with respect … Continued

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• Funding and Finances
• Universities
• Worldwide PSE

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• China

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Massification Causes Stratification May 5, 2016

| Alex Usher

Once upon a time, higher education was small.  Really small.  Only a very few people could enter it, and the value of … Continued

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• Access
• Institutions
• Students

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• Inequality
• Massification

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What’s Going On With College Graduates in Ontario? May 2, 2016

| Alex Usher

I see that Ken Coates and Bill Morrison have just written a new book  called Dream Factories: Why Universities Won’t Solve The … Continued

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• Apprenticeships, Skills & Trades
• Colleges and Polytechnics
• PSE Outcomes

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• Economics
• Graduate employment
• Ken Coates
• Labour Market

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