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Category: PSE Outcomes

OECD Education at a Glance 2020

The OECD released its Education at a Glance (you can download yesterday’s release here), and every year at this time I do a report on the release (see previous articles from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).  Mostly my précises focus on the same couple of things, to wit: Canada has among the highest rates of higher education participation in the world, mainly because our college/polytechnic system is bigger and richer than that of any other country. Whether you measure expenditures on a per-student basis or on a %

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September 9, 2020 No Comments

How to Answer Questions About WIL

Yesterday, I looked at some reasons why WIL works.  Today, I would like to talk about how we might answer larger questions about the extent to which WIL works (or, more accurately, what the impacts of individual aspects of WIL experiences look like). The case for WIL “working” in terms of labour market outcomes largely rests on data for co-op placements, and then kind of assuming that WIL is “co-op lite” (which is sort of true, sometimes). C.D. Howe Institute’s

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June 10, 2020 2 Comments

Why Does WIL Work?

A friend of mine asked me a deceptively simple question the other day: “why does Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) work”?”   What are the possible reasons that students with WIL experiences do better than others in common outcomes such as “higher starting salaries” or “faster transition to full-time work” (take your pick)?  This is a really good question because the answer is nowhere near as straightforward as you might think. One possible answer – the one that seems to be popular in Ottawa these

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June 9, 2020 1 Comment

Credit Hours

It’s hard to tell from the outside what universities are talking about these days, because there is this veil of secrecy up about what planning is happening.  But I’ve heard that, at a couple of schools at least, the focus is very much on the question of credit hours.  As in, “credit hours = contact hours, so if your course isn’t completely synchronous, how do we know students deserve three credits?” Sigh. There are short and long answers to this

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May 6, 2020 4 Comments

New Data on Labour Market Outcomes

A couple of weeks ago, the Labour Market Information Council released a whack of material, produced by Ross Finnie and his Education Policy Research Initiative, on graduate labour market outcomes using Statistics Canada’s new Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP).  The material included a paper, a couple of briefs on earnings by gender and international students, and a nifty online widget that lets you play with the data yourself. The data contains a few surprises, though nothing that radically shakes up much of what

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February 13, 2020 2 Comments

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