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Category: PSE Outcomes

Statscan on College Degrees and International Students

What with all the excitement over back-to-school and the federal election, I have been a bit remiss in keeping up with news from Statistics Canada.  Which is unfortunate, because One Thought’s favourite Stastcan analyst, Marc Frenette, had two papers out in September. They are well worth a quick look. The first paper, Obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree from a Community College: Earnings Outlook and Prospects for Graduates, was released on September 9th.  In the five provinces west of Quebec, it has been the

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October 15, 2019 No Comments

Microcredentials

One of the big buzzwords in higher education these days is “microcredentials”.  Because this term means so many things to different people, it is worth unpacking this term a bit. One of the biggest challenges we have as a country is keeping adults skilled.  Adults are far more expensive to train than young people because their labour has significant market value – it costs them money to take time off work, and their free time is limited due to things

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June 6, 2019 No Comments

Two Important Statscan Papers

Statistics Canada released a couple of papers in the last month which unfairly got zero play in the general media, so thought I would pick them up and amplify them here. The first one, by the ever-excellent Marc Frenette, is called Do Youth From Lower- and Higher-Income Families Benefit Equally From Postsecondary Education? and it’s a pretty important question from a public policy point of view, since a good deal of the rationale for widening access is premised on the

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May 24, 2019 1 Comment

The Bombshell in the Ontario Budget

Morning all.  Yesterday at Queen’s Park, Finance Minister Vic Fedeli brought in the Ontario Conservatives’ first budget of their new mandate.   There were cuts of various sorts, particularly in social services, but in many ways it was gentler than people expected: the plan involves getting the budget to balance in five years, which frankly is what the Liberals probably would have done anyway (though they wouldn’t have got there exclusively by reducing the spend side).  It’s not even a strict

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April 12, 2019 2 Comments

The Krueger/Card Studies

Very sadly, Princeton labor economist Alan Krueger died by suicide last week.  Krueger was much-loved in the profession. He produced an enormous amount of work on the minimum wage and for a couple of years served as Chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.  He also thought a lot about education and famously declared in one paper (co-authored with Stacy Dale) that the effects of attending an extremely selective university (i.e. one of the top Ivy League Schools) on

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March 26, 2019 No Comments

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